EVERETT, EDWARD, a younger brother of the preceding, was b. in 1794, at Dor chester, near Boston, Mass., entered Harvard college in 1807, and took his degree in 1811. He was for some time a Unitarian clergyman in the town of Cambridge, and in this had the reputation of being one of the most eloquent and pathetic preachers in the United States. In 1815, he was elected professor of the Greek language and litera ture in Harvard college; and to qualify himself more thoroughly for his work, he visited Europe, where he resided for four years, and had a distinguished circle of acquaintance, including Scott, Byron, Jeffrey, Romilly, Davy, etc. M. Cousin, the French philosopher and translator of Plato, pronounced him " one of the best Grecians he ever knew." In 1820, E. became editor of The North American Review; and in 1824, a member of the United States congress, sitting in the house of representatives for ten years. In 1835, lie was appointed governor of Massachusetts; and in 1841, minister
plenipotentiary to the court of St. James's. While in England, he received from the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin the degree of n.c.L. On his return to America in 1845, he was elected president of Harvard college; on the decease of Daniel Webster, he became secretary of state; and iu 1853, the legislature of Massachusetts chose him as a member of the senate of the United States. lIe died Jan., 1865.
E.'s principal works are: A Defense of Christianity (1814); Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions from 1825 to 1836 (1836); and Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions from 1825 to 1850. This includes all the previous orations. These Orations, as they are called, are upon all subjects, and, like the writings of his brother, indicate a varied, vigorous, and flexible genius,