Download or read book Gettysburg Oration written by Edward Everett and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following is a two-hour long speech delivered by Edward Everett at the Gettysburg National Cemetery; an event best-remembered for President Abraham Lincoln's famous two-minute Gettysburg Address. Aside from that, Everett is also known to the public for serving as U.S. representative, U.S. senator, the 15th governor of Massachusetts, minister to Great Britain, and United States secretary of state. He also taught at Harvard University and served as its president.