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William Everett

Watertown, Massachusetts, 1839 - 1910, Quincy, Massachusetts

BiographyBorn on 10 October 1839 in Watertown, Mass., William Everett was the youngest of six children of Mass. governor Edward Everett (1794-1865) and Charlotte Gray Brooks Everett. He graduated from Harvard University in 1859 and from Trinity College, Cambridge, England in 1863. In 1865 he graduated from Harvard University's law school and was admitted to the bar in 1866. In 1872 he was licensed to preach by the Suffolk Association of Unitarian Ministers. He tutored at Harvard from 1870 to 1873 when he became an assistant professor of Latin. He became the master of Adams Academy in Quincy in 1878.

Everett became active in politics in 1882 with civil service and tariff reforms. In 1893 he left Adams Academy when he was elected to fill Henry Cabot Lodge's position as a Democrat representing Massachusetts' 7th District in the 53rd United States Congress, a position he held until 3 March 1895. Following in his father's footsteps, he ran for governor of Massachusetts in 1897 but he lost the election to incumbent Roger Wolcott. Everett returned to Quincy and resumed his post as master of Adams Academy in 1897, remaining there until his death on 16 February 1910. He was interred with his parents in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Mass.

Source: Massachusetts Historical Society. www.masshist.org/findignaids

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