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Choate, Rufus
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Choate, Rufus, 1799–1859, American lawyer and Congressman, b. Essex co., Mass.; uncle of Joseph Hodges Choate. Admitted to the bar in 1823, Rufus Choate gained national reputation as a lawyer and as an orator. He served (1830–34) in the U.S. House of Representatives and sat (1841–45) in the U.S. Senate, completing the unexpired term of his friend Daniel Webster.

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See biography by C. M. Fuess (1928, repr. 1970).
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It quotes Rufus Choate, who represented Massachusetts in the House and Senate in the 1830s and '40s.
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As Whig lawyer and orator Rufus Choate once said, "too many minds have been trying to 'conserve' too many things for too many reasons.
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Rufus Choate once successfully offered not one but two defenses in a murder case: the victim had probably killed herself, or if not, Choate's client had killed her while sleepwalking.
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