Henry M. Hoyt (Solicitor General)

Henry Martyn Hoyt, Jr. ( born December 5, 1856 in Wilkes -Barre, Pennsylvania, † November 20, 1910 in Washington, DC) was an American lawyer and United States Solicitor General.

Biography

Hoyt was the son of the lawyer Henry Hoyt, who was 1879-1883 Governor of Pennsylvania.

He studied post-school at Yale University and earned a Bachelor of Arts there in 1878 (BA). A subsequent post-graduate studies in law at the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania, he graduated in 1881. After qualifying as a lawyer in the state of Pennsylvania, he initially worked as a lawyer before he was 1883-1886 Assistant to the Cashier of the U.S. National Bank of New York. Thereafter, he served first as Treasurer ( Treasurer ), and then from 1890 to 1893 as President of the Investment Company of Philadelphia. In the following years he was then a lawyer.

In 1897 he joined the staff in the Ministry of Justice of the United States and until 1903 was assistant to the U.S. Attorney General. In February 1903, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt appointed him Solicitor General, and thus the third- highest public official in the U.S. Department of Justice. He continued in this function until the end of Roosevelt's term of office in March 1909.

He most recently served from March 1909 until his death in November 1910 Legal Adviser ( Counselor ) in the U.S. Department of State.