Everett P. Wheeler

Who was Everett P. Wheeler?

Everett Pepperrell Wheeler was an American lawyer, author, and politician.

He graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1856 and from Harvard in 1859, obtaining an LL.B. degree. In 1894, he was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of New York, nominated by a split faction of the Democratic Party who were barred from the state convention, and opposed the nomination of ex-governor David B. Hill. Later he helped found the Citizens Union. Wheeler drafted the bill which created in 1897 the consolidated City of New York, incorporating the buroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. He was one of the founders of the American Bar Association.

His writings include:

Wages and the Tariff

Modern Law of Carriers

Real Bimetallism

The Harter Act

The Knowledge of Faith

Daniel Webster, Expounder of the Constitution