(October 1, 1799–July 13, 1859), was a lawyer, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1831–34, and U.S. Senator, 1841–45. Before he was six years old, he had become so familiar with John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress as to repeat from memory large portions of it. Famous for his definition of a lawyer’s vacation being “the space between a question to a witness and his answer,” Rufus Choate was extremely fond of the Bible.2133 He declared:
No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.2134