Olney, Richard. United States attorney-general, United States secretary of state. Was born in Oxford, MA, September 15,1835. Graduate of Brown, 1856; Harvard Law School, 1858 (LL. D., Harvard, Brown, Yale). Admitted to bar, 1859. Practiced law in Boston (serving in Massachusetts legislature, 1874) until appointed United States attorney-general by President Cleveland, serving from March 6, 1893, to June 9, 1895, and from June 10, 1895, until March 4, 1897, as secretary of state. Died 1917.

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