Joseph Hodges Choate

Abraham Lincoln Joseph Hodges Choate

An address upon Lincoln, delivered before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution by American Lawyer Joseph Hodges Choate on November 13th, 1900. For a time, Choate served as an Ambassador to the United Kingdom. There, he proved himself quite popular and did a great deal to foster positive relations between the United States and Britain. He also served as one of several representatives of the United States at the second Peace Congress at the Hague in 1907, as well as Chairman of the Mayor's Committee in New York for entertaining the British and French commissions in 1917.