Rufus Choate

A precocious child at six he is said to have been able to repeat large parts of the Bible and of Pilgrim's Progress from memory. Works
Works — edited with a memoir by S. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated as valedictorian of his class at Dartmouth College in 1819 was a tutor there in 1819–1820 spent a year in the law school of Harvard University and studied for a like period in Washington D.

in the office of William Wirt then Attorney General of the United States. C.