Phelps, Edward J

lawyer and diplomat, was born at Middle bury, Vt., July 11, 1822, graduated at Middle bury college 1840, admitted to the bar 1843. He was 2d comptroller of the U. S. Treasury 1851-53, President American Bar A ociation, 1880. Ran for governor of Vermont, 1880, but being charged with sympathizing with the South during the Civil War the prejudices thus aroused caused him to withdraw from the race. He was appointed Minister to England and served 1885-89, and also served as Counsel for the U. S. before the Court of Arbitration in the Behring Sea controversy. At the time of his death, which occurred March 9, 1900, he was regarded as being the greatest constitutional Jawyer in America.