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Show THE RECORD OF DEATH. Kit-Attorney Oeneral Flerrepont. New York, March 7. Edward Picrrepont died yesterday morning, after a brief illness of nervous prostration. He was born In North Haven, Conn., March 4, 1SU; was a graduate of Yale ; was elected judge of the superior court of Now York upon tho death of Chief Justice Oakley; was one of the active organizers of the 1'nion defense committee; com-mittee; was appointed minister to Russia in '7:1, but declined; April '75 was appointed Attorney general of the United States, remaining re-maining in Grant's cabinet until May, 187(i, who ho was appointed minister to England. |