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Born in Salem County, New Jersey , he graduated from Princeton College in 1834, then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1838. In 1846 Brewster was appointed commissioner, by President James K. Polk , to adjudicate the claims of the Cherokee against the U.S. federal government. He was appointed Attorney General of Pennsylvania in 1867 by Governor John W. Geary . He was chief prosecutor in the case of the U.S. Postal Service 's Star Route Frauds . Chester A. Arthur appointed Brewster Attorney General Of The United States in 1881, and he held that office for the duration of Arthur's term. Brewster, a son-in-law of fellow Presidential Cabinet Secretary Robert John Walker , died in Philadelphia in 1888 and is buried in Woodlands Cemetery in that city.
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