Education and Career
Hoar graduated from Harvard University in 1882 and Harvard Law School in 1884. While at Harvard he sat as the model for the head of the John Harvard statue. In 1885 was admitted to the bar of Middlesex County and commenced practice law in Concord, Massachusetts.
Though from a prominent Republican family Hoar was a Mugwump, leading the Young Men’s Democratic Club of Massachusetts during Grover Cleveland's 1884 campaign, and was a member of the House of Representatives in the Fifty-second U.S. Congress (1891–1893). He was U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, 1893-1897.
Hoar was director of the Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association during the Spanish-American war, and served in several US Army hospitals in the South. He was also a great believer in public education. He once said: "Our public school system is what makes this Nation superior to all other Nations—not the Army or the Navy system. Military display . . . does not belong here.”
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