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John Garibaldi Sargent ( October 13 , 1860March 5 , 1939 ) was an American lawyer and statesman.

He graduated from Tufts College in 1887 , and earned a Master's Degree from the same institution in 1912 . He studied law in the interim and was admitted to the Vermont bar in 1890 . Sargent joined the firm of Stickney, Sargent & Skeels , then served as state's attorney in Windsor County, Vermont , until 1900 .

He served as secretary for civil and military affairs of Vermont from 1900 to 1902 , and as Attorney General of Vermont from 1900 to 1902 and again from 1908 to 1912 .

President Calvin Coolidge appointed Sargent Attorney General Of The United States on March 17 , 1925 , and he remained in that office until March 5 , 1929 . Sargent was also chairman of the Vermont Commission on Uniform State Laws, and a trustee of the Black River Academy . He died in 1939 in Ludlow, Vermont .

He was a Unitarian .


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  Before Harlan Fiske Stone
  Title United States Attorney General
  Years 1925&ndash1929