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(1794–1865), American statesman, educator, and orator,
born in Dorchester, Mass., and educated at Harvard University and
the University of Göttingen, Germany. Everett was editor
of the North American Review from 1820 until 1824.
In 1825 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and
served for ten years. He was governor of Massachusetts from 1836
to 1840. The following year he was appointed U.S. minister to Great
Britain, returning to the U.S. in 1845 to become president of Harvard
University, a position he held from 1846 to 1849. Everett served
as secretary of state (1852–53) under President Millard
Fillmore and as U.S. senator from Massachusetts from 1853 to 1854.
In 1860 he ran unsuccessfully for the vice-presidency on the ticket
of the Constitutional Union party as the running mate of John Bell
of Tennessee. His orations, including the one he delivered before
Abraham Lincoln's
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