William Wirt biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of William Wirt

Author Name:

William Wirt

Born As:

William Wirt

Other Names:

Born:

8 Nov 1772

Died:

18 Feb 1834




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Author and statesman                          
                          
                          
Credited with turning the position of United States Attorney General into one of influence.                          
In the early 2000s, after a series of mysterious phone calls to the cemetery, it was discovered that in the 1970s someone had broken into the Wirt Tomb at Washington, D.C.'s Congressional Cemetery and had stolen Wirt's skull. After the skull was recovered from the house of a historical memorabilia collector, it spent time in D.C. Council member Jim Graham's office while he tried to get it returned to its rightful crypt. Finally in 2005 investigators from the Smithsonian Institute were able to determine the skull, which had gold block letters saying "Hon. Wm. Wirt" painted on it, was indeed his and had it returned.