Francis Wharton

Francis Wharton (March 7, 1820, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – February 21, 1889) was an American legal writer and educationalist.

Wharton graduated from Yale in 1839, was admitted to the bar in 1843, and became prominent in Pennsylvania politics as a Democrat.

He was a professor of English, History, and Literature at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, from 1856 to 1863.

[1] For two years he traveled in Europe, and after two years in Philadelphia he went to Washington, DC, where he was lecturer on criminal law (1885–1886) and then professor of criminal law (1886–1888) at Columbian (now George Washington) University; in 1885-1888 he was solicitor (or examiner of claims) of the Department of State, and from 1888 until his death was employed on an edition (authorized by Congress) of the Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States (6 vols, 1889, ed.

[1] Wharton was a "broad churchman" and was deeply interested in the hymnology of his church.