IN MEMORIAM

Wayne MacVeagh
Born Phoenixville, PA 1833. Yale A.B. ’53.
ll.D.: Amherst ’81, University of
Pennsylvania ’97, Harvard ’01. Admitted
practice Pennsylvania 1856. District
Attorney, Chester County, PA (1859–64).
Union Army: Captain of infantry (1862);
Major of cavalry (1863). Chairman,
Republican State Central Committee
(1863). United States Minister to Turkey
(1870–71). Member: Pennsylvania State
Constitutional Convention (1872–74).
Partner, MacVeagh & Bispham (1875–81). Chairman: MacVeagh
Commission sent to louisiana by President Hayes to amicably settle
disputes of contending parties (1877). Attorney General of the United
States (1881). Counsel, Bangs Stetson Tracy & MacVeagh (and
predecessor firm) (1886–89). United States Ambassador to Italy
(1893–97). Chief Counsel for the U.S., Venezuelan arbitration before
The Hague Tribunal (1903). Senior associate counsel, McKenney &
Flannery (1901–17). Author of several articles to North American
Review in advocacy of international peace and other subjects.
Member: Phi Beta Kappa; Delta Kappa Epsilon; Chairman, Civil
Service Reform Association of Philadelphia; Chairman, Indian Rights
Association of Philadelphia.
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