Massachusetts State Senator and Justice
Hoar began his political career during the 1840s and associated himself with the anti-slavery section of the Whig Party. Hoar stated that he was a Conscience Whig rather than a Cotton Whig that represented Southern interests in slavery. In 1846 Hoar was elected to the Massachusetts Senate as an anti-slavery Whig. In 1848, Hoar worked with his father to form the Free Soil Party in Massachusetts. This party opposed the extension of slavery in the Western territories and as a result would curb the federal legislative power of the southern slaves states. Hoar was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Boston from 1849 until 1855. From 1859 to 1869 Hoar was an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. While on the bench Judge Hoar was known for his critiquing of younger lawyers; one of these young lawyers who impressed Hoar was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. After the American Civil War, Hoar opposed the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.
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