12 Facts About Wayne MacVeagh

Isaac Wayne MacVeagh was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat.

Wayne MacVeagh served as the 36th Attorney General of the United States under the administrations of Presidents James A Garfield and Chester A Arthur.

Wayne MacVeagh's brother, Franklin MacVeagh, was a Chicago wholesale grocer, banker and US Secretary of the Treasury under President William Howard Taft.

Wayne MacVeagh attended Yale University, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and graduated tenth in his class in 1853.

Wayne MacVeagh was admitted to the bar in 1856, and was the District Attorney of Chester County, Pennsylvania, from 1859 through 1864.

Wayne MacVeagh raised an independent cavalry company and later served in the 29th Emergency Militia Regiment, reaching the rank of major.

Wayne MacVeagh became a leader in the Republican Party, and was a prominent opponent of his father-in-law, Simon Cameron, in the fight within the party in 1871.

Wayne MacVeagh was the Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1870 through 1871, and was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1872 and 1873.

In 1875, Wayne MacVeagh co-founded the Philadelphia-based law firm known today as Dechert LLP.

Wayne MacVeagh served as Chairman of the MacVeagh Commission, sent in 1877 by President Rutherford B Hayes to Louisiana, which secured the settlement of the contest between two existing state governments and thus made possible the withdrawal of US troops from the state.

Chester Arthur was to be 21st President and Wayne MacVeagh served as a cabinet member.

Wayne MacVeagh was buried at the Church of the Redeemer Cemetery in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.