1816–1895 · American judge · U.S. Attorney General
Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (1816–1895) was an American politician, lawyer and jurist from Massachusetts. He sat on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, served as U.S. Attorney General from 1869 to 1870 and was the first head of the newly created Department of Justice; Grant nominated him to the Supreme Court, where the Senate rejected him, and later appointed him to the commission that negotiated the Treaty of Washington. He had a reputation for sharp remarks delivered at exactly the right moment — this was the most famous of them, and the New York Times said so in his obituary year.