Oliver Ellsworth
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Content Inside: Oliver Ellsworth (1745–1807) A U.S. senator from Connecticut and third B orn in New Haven, Connecticut, Hezekiah Augur was the chief justice of the United States, Oliver son of a carpenter-joiner who discouraged the boy from Ellsworth was described by a contempo- undertaking a manual occupation. Instead, he directed his rary as “tall, dignified, and command ing.” 1 Born in Windsor, Connecticut, son to the dry goods trade. Though a failure as a merchant, Ellsworth was educated at Yale and Augur invented a lace-making machine that brought him Princeton. He practiced law, served as a judge of the Connecticut Superior Court, some financial security. Meanwhile, he pursued wood carving on his and was politically active during the own. In 1823 Augur followed the advice of Samuel F.B. Morse to carve Revolutionary War. For six years he repre- directly in marble. When his marble bust of Apollo was exhibited in sented Connecticut in the Continental Congress. Later, as a delegate to the Con- New York City, critics hailed the self-taught sculptor as “the Yankee stitutional Convention, he helped shape the Phidias,” recalling the greatest artist of ancient Greece. Connecticut Compromise, which assured Augur continued to sculpt portrait busts and classical groups in New each state equal representation in the Senate and population-based representa- Haven. His most respected and widely known work before his bust of tion in the House of Representatives. Ellsworth was the marble group, Jephthah and His Daughter (ca. 1828–32), After ratification of the Constitution, which illustrates a cautionary tale from the Old Testament (Judg. 11:34–35). Ellsworth was elected to the first United States Senate; he served from 1789 to These half life-size figures were exhibited in Washington, D.C. In this 1796. A wise figure whose authority in way Augur might have come to the attention of the Joint Committee on the Senate was said to surpass even that the Librar ...
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