GORE, Christopher, senator, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 21 September, 1758: died in Waltham, Massachusetts, 1 March, 1827. His father, John (1719-'96), was prosecuted and banished as a loyalist in 1778, but was restored to citizenship in 1787 by act of legislature. The son was graduated at Harvard in 1776, studied law with Judge Lowell, and soon acquired a lucrative practice in Boston. In 1789 he was appointed by Washington the first district attorney for Massachusetts, which office he held until 1796. In that year he was appointed, with William Pinckney, commissioner to England under John Jay's treaty to settle the American spoliation claims, and succeeded in obtaining the restitution of a large amount of property, he remained in London for eight years, during the last of which he was charge d'affaires. He returned to Boston in 1804, and was appointed governor of Massachusetts in 1809, but served only one year. He was a member of both branches of the legislature, and in 1813 was elected United States senator in place of James Lloyd, which office he held till 1816. After serving as a presidential elector in 1817 he retired to private life. He was for a time Daniel Webster's tutor in law. He left valuable bequests to the American academy of sciences and to the Massachusetts historical society, of which associations he was a member, and bequeathed nearly $100,000 to Harvard, of which he had been a fellow. The Harvard library building, Gore hall, which was completed in 1841, is named in his honor. Harvard gave him the degree of LL. D.