biography
| name: |
Depew, Chauncey Mitchell
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pronunciation:
[duhpyoo]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1834–1928)
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| biography:
| Lawyer, businessman, and public official, born in Peekskill, New York, USA. He studied at Yale, then worked as a lawyer, and participated in Republican Party affairs. He was the first US ambassador to Japan (1866). Rising through the Vanderbilt industrial–financial empire, he became president of the New York Central Railroad in 1885. He served in the US Senate (1899–1911), and became known as an orator and after-dinner wit. ‘I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise’, he once quipped, explaining his good health and long life. |
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