page_title: Joseph H. Choate Jr.
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Joseph H. Choate Jr. / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Caroline Dutcher Sterling Choate was the wife of American diplomat Joseph Hodges Choate.
context_page_description: Joseph Hodges Choate Jr., was an American lawyer who chaired the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers, a group established in 1927 that promoted the repeal of prohibition. Upon repeal in 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt named Choate the first head of the Federal Alcohol Control Administration.
context_section_description: Joseph Hodges Choate Jr. was born on February 2, 1876, in New York City, where he grew up, as well as at Naumkeag, his family's country estate in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He was youngest of five children born to U.S. lawyer and diplomat Joseph Hodges Choate and artist and activist Caroline Dutcher Sterling Choate. His older siblings were Ruluff Sterling Choate, George Choate, Josephine Choate, and Mabel Choate. In 1899, his father was appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James in London by President William McKinley and served from 1899 to 1905, continuing under President Theodore Roosevelt.
  His paternal grandparents were Margaret Manning (née Hodges) Choate and Dr. George Choate, a physician. Among his extended family were uncles William Gardner Choate, a U.S. District Judge of the Southern District of New York (who established Choate School), and Dr. George Cheyne Shattuck Choate. Her maternal grandparents were Caroline (née Dutcher) Sterling and Frederick Augustine Sterling, who were both from Connecticut.
  Like his father and uncle William before him, he graduated from Harvard University in 1897 and Harvard Law School.
caption: His mother, Caroline Sterling Choate
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