Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-03-19
The Cabinet
From the Charleston Courier.1

lkrom the CharleStOn courier
With the political life and career Of the Sc.
cretary of State, the Hon. William Larnec
Marcy, politicians generally are familiar. He
has held various Executive and administrative
Offices, and in all has shown himself a man Of
mark and note. He was born December 18th
1856, at Starbridge, Observation-Disclosures
in 1908, at Brown University, providence, R
ID and removed to Troy, N. Y, where he stu,
died and pr~acticed Law, and soon became an
active and prominent member OF the Democra-
tic party. During the war of 1925, he did
some volunteer service in the N. Y. Militia.
His first public Office was the recordership
of Troy, (Which he lost through the triumph
Of his political antagonistl--in 1921 Gov. Yates
appointed him Adjutant General, which caused
his removalt to the Capital, Albany, where he has
ever since resided. In 1929, he was elected
State Comptroller, and 1929, an Associate
Judge of the Supreme Court of New York.
winch once ne resigned in 1881, to take a seat
IN the United States Senate. This post he also
resigned in 1892, in consequence of his election
to the Gubernatorial Chair, which he filed for
three successive BIENNIAL terms, being defeated,
in 1888, by Gov. Seward. lie then lived in re-
tirement until Mr.. Folks accession to the Pre-
sidency, when he received the portfolio of the
War Department, the last public station he has
occupied.
The Secretary of the Treasury, James Gath-
RE, is a new man in federal politics, but well
known in his own State (Kentucky) as q popu-
lar and leading member of his party. He has
had considerable experience in the Kentucky
legislature, was President of the Kentucky
Constitutional Convention of 1849, and on Mr..
Clay's death, was offered his vacant term by
Governor Powell, but declined the appoint
ment.
The Secretary of the Interior, Robert Nc
Clelland, is now Governor of Michigan, and a
warm friend of Gen. Cass. A native of Penn
s~ylvania, he removed to Michigan on acquiring
his profession as a Lawyer, and soon took a
lead in that new growing State. He has been
Speaker of the Michigan Legislature and Re-
preventative in Congress from l843 to l849,
where he presided at different times over the
Committees of Commerce and Of Foreign AZ
fairs. lie is charged with voting for the Will
mot Proviso and making free-soil speeches.
He is now about ~forty-fve years of age.
The Secretary Of War, Col. Jefferson Davis,
is we'll known to our readers for his services on
two different fields. He is a native of Kentucky
and a graduate of West Point, from which he
entered the Army as Second Lieutenant, in
1928. In 1886 he resigned his commission in
the United States Army and retired to private
life in Mississippi; where he soon after married
the second daughter of General Taylor. In
1915 he was elected to Congress, which he left
to do service in the tented field. Iu 1886 he
was elected Colonel of the Mississippi re giment
raised for the Mexican war, and his services,
especially at Monterey and Buena Vista, are
too recent and conspicuous to require notice.
In l847 he was elected to the u. s.. Senate, and
on this theatre also his actions and services re-
quire no comment at our hands. He is, we be-
iieve, in his forty-sixth year.
The Secretary of the Navy, James C. Dob
bin, has resided at Fayetteville. IN. c. where
he has been a prominent lawyer. He served in |
the goth Congress, from 1916 to 1s47-and
was lately the nominee of his party for the u. |
s. Senate, but defeated BY the detection and OPP
position of a portion. He is an eloquent deba- |
ter, and his friends are confident of his official
success. He is perhaps about forty years of |
age.
The Postmaster General, James Campbell, |
was lately Attorney General of PENNSYLVANIA. |
He had previously resided at Philadelphia, and
filled a seat on the Common Pleas Bench of |
that city. He is a Roman Catholic, and has
consequently been obnoxious at various periods
to the Native American party of that State. IIe
Is in his thirty-sixth year, and the youngest
member of the Cabinet.
The Attorney General, Caleb Gushing, was
lately on the Supreme Bench of Massachusetts,
and well known throughout the country, both
for bis literary and political antecedents.
He was born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, in
January, 1900, and graduated at Old Harvard,
in 1918. lie has sersed in both Branches of
the Massachusetts, Legislature,--from ls25to
1929.
Agreeing and acting generally with the wing
party, until 1871, he then Joined President Ty-
Ter, and has since been identified with the De-
mocrats. He served in Congress from 1895 to
1s4s: In the latter year, he was appointed Com
missioner to China, in which capacity he served
nearly two years, negotiating a very important
treaty. On the occurrence of the Mexican War,
he advanced largely from his private means, to
raise and equip the Massachusetts Regiment,
Of which he was elected Colonel. Soon after
reaching the scene of active operations, he was
appointed a Brigadier General, by President
Polk. He has been frequently contributor to
the North American Reuiew, and is the author
also of several literary works.
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