me as a daily reminder of the law's integrity, that a useful life can be led in its service, of the hard work it takes, and an encouragement to good habits when I fail and when I falter. At the end of it all, I can ask for nothing more than to be described as he was. And if confirmed, I pledge to you that I will do everything in my power to be that man." Notes References (five volume history of Massachusetts until the early 20th century) (The author was Sumner's son) 1746 births 1799 deaths 18th-century American lawyers 18th-century American politicians 18th-century American educators 18th-century American judges 18th-century Protestants American Protestants Burials at Granary Burying Ground Educators from Massachusetts Farmers from Massachusetts Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences American people of English descent Federalist Party state governors of the United States Governors of Massachusetts Harvard College alumni Massachusetts Federalists Massachusetts lawyers Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court People from Roxbury, Boston People of colonial Massachusetts Roxbury Latin School alumni Roxbury Latin School faculty Sumner family Deaths from angina pectoris