(1818–1905), U.S. public official, born in Brookline, Mass.; admitted to the bar 1862, after several years in politics; member of state legislature 1842–50; elected governor 1851, 1852; state organizer of the Republican party; commissioner of internal revenue 1862–63; U.S. House of Representatives 1863–69; as secretary of the treasury under President Grant 1869–73, prevented a run on the gold market September 1869; U.S. senator from Massachusetts 1873–77; U.S. consul in Haiti 1885, Hawaii 1886, and Chile 1893–94; headed Anti-Imperialist League 1895–1905.