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...private secretary to his father, who was Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary at that time. He has also been Parliamentary Under-Secretary and Assistant Secretary of Foreign Affairs. Besides being a politician and a statesman, he is both a scholar and a lawyer, author of several books and a Bencher of the Inner Temple-the highest honor obtainable in the ancient Law Colleges...
...after receiving his law degree, Mr. Choate rose to the leadership of the New York bar, and in 1899 he was asked by President McKinley to go as American ambassador to London. While in England he was adopted by the inner circle of the British bar and made a "bencher", or member of the governing body of the Middle Empire, a rank of respect never conferred on a foreigner in England since...