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Wayne MacVeagh

AKA Isaac Wayne MacVeagh

Born: 19-Apr-1833
Birthplace: Phoenixville, PA
Died: 11-Jan-1917
Location of death: Washington, DC
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Church of the Redeemer Cemetery, Bryn Mawr, PA

Gender: Male
Religion: Methodist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Government, Attorney
Party Affiliation: Republican

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: US Attorney General, 1881

Military service: US Army (Civil War, 1862-63)

Father: Major John MacVeagh
Mother: Margaret Lincoln
Brother: Franklin MacVeagh (US Treasury Secretary)
Wife: Letitia Miner Lewis (m. 1856)
Son: Charles MacVeagh (US Ambassador to Japan, b. 1860, d. 1931)
Wife: Virginia Rolette Cameron (dau. of Simon Cameron, m. 1866)

University: BA, Yale University (1853)

US Ambassador to Italy (1894-97)
US Attorney General (1881)
US Ambassador to Turkey (1870-71)
Pennsylvania State Official District Attorney, Chester County (1859-64)
Pennsylvania Bar Association 1856
McKenny & Flannery
Pennsylvania Railroad Company Counsel (1870s)
DC Railroad Company Counsel

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