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Wirt, William (1772–1834)

US lawyer, cabinet officer, and author. As US attorney general (1817–29) under presidents James Monroe and John Quincy Adams he argued landmark cases. He was the reluctant presidential candidate of the Anti-Masons in 1832.

Born in Bladensburg, Maryland, the son of Swiss-German tavern-keepers, he read law and began his practice in Virginia. After three terms as clerk of Virginia's House of Delegates (1800–02), he gained fame as assistant prosecuting attorney in Aaron Burr's treason trial in 1807.

With some ambition to have a literary reputation, he enjoyed considerable popularity with The Letters of the British Spy (1803), observations on society supposedly written by an English visitor. Less successful was his Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry (1817).
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When William Wirt died in 1834, Daniel Webster and Chief Justice John Marshall spoke in his honor in the U.
The best books you haven't read .. by The American Conservative
Monroe also named William Wirt of Virginia as his attorney general.
The political professionalism of James Monroe by Greenstein, Fred I. / Presidential Studies Quarterly
For discussions of companionate marriage in the early national period, see Anya Jabour, Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal (Baltimore, 1998); Jan Lewis, "The Republican Wife: Virtue and Seduction in the Early Republic," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, 44 (October, 1987): 689-721; and Smith, Breaking the Bonds, esp.
Divorce, patriarchal authority, and masculinity: a case from early ... by Sievens, Mary Beth / Journal of Social History
 
 
 
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