Joseph Hodges Choate was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was chairman of the American delegation at the Second Hague Conference, and ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Joseph Hodges Choate, 1898
"United States Embassy". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1899.
Choate featured on the 14 Apr 1898 cover of Vogue
Joseph Hodges Choate on May 11, 1917, in Manhattan
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Company, 157 U.S. 429 (1895), affirmed on rehearing, 158 U.S. 601 (1895), was a landmark case of the Supreme Court of the United States. In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court struck down the income tax imposed by the Wilson–Gorman Tariff Act for being an unapportioned direct tax. The decision was superseded in 1913 by the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which allows Congress to levy income taxes without apportioning them among the states.
The Fuller Court.