Henry M. Hoyt (Solicitor General)

Henry Martyn Hoyt Jr. (December 5, 1856 – November 20, 1910) served as Solicitor General of the United States from 1903 to 1909. His father, also named Henry Martyn Hoyt, served as governor of Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1883.

Henry Martyn Hoyt Jr.
11th Solicitor General of the United States
In office February 25, 1903 – March 31, 1909
President	Theodore Roosevelt
Preceded by	John K. Richards
Succeeded by	Lloyd Bowers
Personal details
Born	(1856-12-05)December 5, 1856 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	November 20, 1910(1910-11-20) (aged 53) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political party	Republican
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania Law School, Yale University

Early life

Hoyt was born on December 5, 1856 in Wilkes-Barre, the son of Henry Martyn Hoyt, the governor of Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1883. He graduated from Yale University in 1878 and the law school of the University of Pennsylvania in 1881.

Career

After a career spent in private practice as a lawyer in Pennsylvania, starting in Pittsburgh and then in banking he became an Assistant Attorney General in 1897. In 1903, he was appointed Solicitor General by Theodore Roosevelt. After the end of Roosevelt's term in office he became a counselor to Secretary of State Philander C. Knox.

Personal life

Hoyt married Anne McMichael in 1883 and had five children, including:

• Elinor Wylie (September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928), a poet who married three times
• Henry Martyn Hoyt (May 8, 1887 in Pennsylvania – 1920 in New York City) who married Alice Gordon Parker (January 27, 1885 in Newark, New Jersey – 1951)
• Constance A. Hoyt (May 20, 1889 in Pennsylvania – 1923 in Bavaria, Germany) who married Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg on March 30, 1910 in Washington, D.C.
• Morton McMichael Hoyt (April 4, 1899 in Washington, D.C. – ?), three times married and divorced Eugenia Bankhead, known as "Sister" and sister of Tallulah Bankhead
• Nancy McMichael Hoyt (October 1, 1902 in Washington, D.C. – ?) romance novelist who wrote Elinor Wylie: The Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1935). She married Edward Davison Curtis; they divorced in 1932.

Hoyt died on November 20, 1910.

References

• Hively, Evelyn Helmick (2003). A Private Madness: The Genius of Elinor Wylie. Kent: Kent State University Press. ISBN 0-87338-746-5.
• U.S. Office of the Solicitor General page for Henry M. Hoyt
• Henry M. Hoyt Jr. at Find a Grave

Legal offices
Preceded by John K. Richards	Solicitor General 1903–1909	Succeeded by Lloyd Wheaton Bowers