Henry D. Gilpin

Henry D. Gilpin

Henry Dilworth Gilpin (April 14, 1801 – January 29, 1860) was an American lawyer and statesman of Quaker extraction who served as Attorney General of the United States under President Martin Van Buren.

He was the son of Joshua Gilpin and Mary Dilworth, and was born in Lancaster, England, just before his parents returned to America. His father had been on extended tour of Britain and Europe, lasting from 1795 to 1801, during which he obtained information about the new manufacturing methods used in paper-making for his family paper mills on Brandywine Creek in Delaware. His mother was from the Quaker Dilworths of Lancaster, England.

The family returned to England for another tour in 1812, and returned to the United States in about 1816, during which time Henry attended school near London. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, he studied law with Joseph R. Ingersoll and was admitted to the bar in 1822. He served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1831 to 1837, and then as Solicitor of the United States Treasury in 1837.^[1] During this time he joined the American Philosophical Society and from 1833 to 1835 he was on the board of the Bank of the United States.

President Martin Van Buren named him 14th Attorney General of the United States in 1840. He served until 1841, during which time he presented the U.S. government's side of the Amistad case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

From 7 June 1852 until 13 June 1859 he was president of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and a vice president and trustee of the Philadelphia Historical Society, and from 1856 to 1858 he was also a director of Girard College. He was also a secretary and director of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. Gilpin died in Philadelphia in 1860.

References

↑ Poore, Benjamin Perley (1878). The political register and congressional directory: a statistical record of the Federal Officials...1776–1878. Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company. p. 230.

Legal offices
Preceded by Felix Grundy	U.S. Attorney General Served under: Martin Van Buren 1840–1841	Succeeded by John J. Crittenden
Preceded by Virgil Maxcy	Solicitor of the United States Treasury 1837–1840	Succeeded by Matthew Birchard

United States Attorneys General

18th Century	Randolph Bradford Lee

19th Century	Lincoln Breckinridge Rodney Pinkney Rush Wirt Berrien Taney Butler Grundy Gilpin Crittenden Legaré Nelson Mason Clifford Toucey Johnson Crittenden Cushing Black Stanton Bates Speed Stanbery Evarts Hoar Akerman Williams Pierrepont Taft Devens MacVeagh Brewster Garland Miller Olney Harmon McKenna Griggs

20th Century	Knox Moody Bonaparte Wickersham McReynolds Gregory Palmer Daugherty Stone Sargent W D Mitchell Cummings Murphy Jackson Biddle T C Clark McGrath McGranery Brownell Rogers Kennedy Katzenbach W R Clark J N Mitchell Kleindienst Richardson Saxbe Levi Bell Civiletti Smith Meese Thornburgh Barr Reno

21st Century	Ashcroft Gonzales Mukasey Holder Lynch

Solicitors of the United States Treasury

Virgil Maxcy (1830–37) Henry D. Gilpin (1837–40) Matthew Birchard (1840–41) Charles B. Penrose (1841–45) Seth Barton (1845–47) Ransom H. Gillet (1847–49) George F. Comstock (1849–52) Gilbert Rodman (1853) John Carroll LeGrand (1853) Albert Constable (1853) Farris B. Streeter (1853–57) Junius Hillyer (1857–61) Benjamin F. Pleasants (1861) Edward Jordan (1861–69) E. C. Banfield (1869–74) Bluford Wilson (1874–76) George F. Talbot (1876–77) Kenneth Rayner (1877–84) Henry S. Neal (1884–85) Alexander McCue (1885–88) Charles S. Cary (1888–89) William P. Hepburn (1889–93) Felix A. Reeve (1893–97) Maurice D. O'Connell (1897–1910) William T. Thompson (1910–15) Lawrence Becker (1915–22) Richard Randolph McMahon (1922–26) Robert J. Mawhinney (1926–32)

Cabinet of President Martin Van Buren (1837–41)

Secretary of State	John Forsyth (1837–41)

Secretary of the Treasury	Levi Woodbury (1837–41)

Secretary of War	Joel R. Poinsett (1837–41)

Attorney General	Benjamin F. Butler (1837–38) Felix Grundy (1838–40) Henry D. Gilpin (1840–41)

Postmaster General	Amos Kendall (1837–40) John M. Niles (1840–41)

Secretary of the Navy	Mahlon Dickerson (1837–38) James K. Paulding (1838–41)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 59473216 LCCN: n86053868 ISNI: 0000 0000 7370 4536 SUDOC: 110776607

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Henry D. Gilpin

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