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Throughout the 92 years of his life, Quincy always held to his definition of correct behavior. And this almost always brought him success, with the singular exception of his sojourn at Harvard. As a Congressman, reform mayor, historian, and Federalist leader he had few peers; when the Corporation selected Quincy as the fifteenth president of the College it was on the basis of a distinguished record of public service...
Quincy decided to enter law and apprenticed himself to Mr. William Tudor for training, not only in legal niceties but also in political maneuvers. Josiah was born and remained a Federalist, although the party collapsed 40 years before his death, and despite his relatively late start in politics, he advanced rapidly...
...Federalist Party first took note of Quincy after his flaming July 4th oration in 1798, which lambasted the French Directory and its attitude toward the fledgling United States. Edmund Quincy, Josiah's son and very partial biographer, enthused over the speech: "The effect which his oration produced upon the audience in the Old South Church was long remembered by those who heard it, for the fiery enthusiasm it aroused, and the passionate tears it drew forth." Quincy stood for Congress in the election of 1800, and, like the rest of the Federalists, went down to defeat. Democratic newspapers pointed...
Speaking with the deliberateness of an academician but the incisiveness of a lawyer, Munoz yesterday explained to those assembled in his top-floor suite at the Statler-Hilton that he considered himself a Federalist, but of a new kind. Puerto Rico is allied with the United States in the framework of a larger and looser federal structure than the one originally conceived of in the Union, he feels. "We have initiated a contribution of a new and different kind in the American constitutional system. It is the first new development since the thirteen original states. We want...
...uncle Robert Lansing, U.S. Secretary of State 1915-20 (Woodrow Wilson). On a small table within reach of his swivel chair, he laid out three books that through decades of international law and diplomacy he had rarely been without. The books: Stalin's Problems of Leninism, The Federalist papers, the Bible...