John G. Sargent
John Garibaldi Sargent ( born October 12, 1860 in Ludlow, Windsor County, Vermont; † March 5, 1939 ) was an American lawyer, politician and Minister of Justice ( Attorney General ).
Study and career
Sargent, a follower of Unitarianism, first completed a general education studies at Tufts College in Medford, which he finished in 1887 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). Subsequently, he studied law and graduated in 1890 with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ) from.
After a year as a licensed attorney in the law firm Stickney, Sargent & Skeels, he was from 1891 to 1900 district attorney in Windsor County. In 1912 he acquired from his alma mater the degree of Master of Arts (MA). Between his political activities, he worked as a lawyer again. He was also temporarily a member of the Trustee Board ( trustee ) of the Black River Academy.
Political career
Offices in the State of Vermont
Sargent began his political career as Attorney General of the State of Vermont from 1900 to 1902 at this time., He was also Secretary (Minister ) for civil and military affairs of the State Government. From 1908 to 1912 he was again Attorney General of Vermont. In later years he also was chairman of the Commission for the Standardization of state laws.
Minister of Justice under President Coolidge
As a supporter of the Republican Party, he supported in 1920 and 1924, the successful presidential candidacies of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge.
On March 17, 1925, he was named President Coolidge, of how he came from Vermont and graduated from college also graduated from the Black River Academy, Harlan Fiske Stone as the successor of the Attorney General in his cabinet. Sargent, however, was only nominated after the preferred candidate of the president, the former ambassador to Japan, Charles B. Warren, gave up the post after the usual hearings of the candidates in the Senate because of his views on antitrust law (Anti -Trust Laws).
As Minister of Justice he sat down in 1927 to the President for the early release of originating from Jamaica civil rights activist and founder of the UNIA - ACL, Marcus Garvey, one who was convicted in June 1923 for fraud to five years' imprisonment. He disapproved particular, the methods of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), whose director J. Edgar Hoover had placed a listening Garvey.
Sargent remained in the office of the Minister of Justice until the end of Coolidge's presidency on March 5, 1929.
Web links, and background literature
- Biographies of the members of the Cabinet of President Coolidge
- Biography on the website of the Ministry of Justice
- Biography in the U.S. legal lexicon
- Biography on the website of the Vermont Historical Society
- John G. Sargent in the database of Find a Grave (English)
- Mr. Sargent. Article in TIME Magazine, March 30, 1925
- Controversy 's End. Article in TIME Magazine, March 30, 1925
- Distinction. Article in TIME Magazine, April 20, 1925
- Mergers Opposed. Article in TIME Magazine, February 22, 1926
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