Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-03-14
President Buchanan.s Cabinet.

Secretary ofState--Lewis Cass, of Michi-
gan.
Secretary of the Treasury-IIowell Cobb,
of Georgia
Secretary of War-John b. Floyd, of
Virginia.
Secretary of the Navy--1saac Toucey, of
| Connecticut
Secretary of the Interior--Jacob Thomp-
son. of Mississippi
/ Postmaster General-Aaron Y. Brown,
Of Tennessee.
Attorney General-Judgc j. S. Black,
of Pennsylvania.
As there will, no doubt, be considerable
curiosity to know something of the previous
history of the members of the Cabinet, we
suboin the following brief sketches
( SECRETARY OF sTATE--GENERAL LEWIS cAss,
OF MICHIGAN.
General Cass was born at Exeter Now
Hampshire. His ancestors were amongst
/ the first settlers i'll that part of the country.
and his father bore a commission in the rev.
dictionary army and was present at the bat
ties of Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Princeton,
Trenton Monmouth, aud Germantown -
He was afterwards major in Waync's or
my, and died near GAINESVILLE, O., in 1890
! His son, Lewis Cass, was educated at the
academy of Exeter, and studied law at MAJ
rietta, Ohio, under the late Gov. Meies
He was admitted to the bar in 1902, and in
! 1906, more than fifty years ago, was elect
ed a member of the Ohio Legislature in
/ 1872 he volunteered his services in the force
which was called out to Join the army unaer
& en- Hull, and marched to Dayton, where
! he was elected colonel of the third regiment
Of Ohio volunteers. He was the first man,
with his detachment, to invade Canada He
! subsequently, being promoted to brigadier
general, joined Gen. Harrison. and eros
ing Lake Erie with him after Perry's vie
tory, was present in the pursuit Of Proctor
and participated in the triumph of the Mo-
raviau towns. The Northwestern campaign
being happily terminated, General eass was
! left in command Of Michigan and the upper
provinces of Canada. His headquarters
were at Detroit, and he thus became tie
military guardian Of people over whom he
was soon after Oct Q, 1879 called to pre-
side as civil Governor In 1915, after tie
termination of the war, General Cass moved
i his family to Detroit. During the time lie
was civil governor Of the Territory of Miult-
J iean he negotiated no less than twenty-one
treaties with the Indians. In the expodi-
lions necessitated by them he encountered
more pel'ils and had occasion for the display
of more tirmness and intrepidity than any
man ever engaged in this service. In ISL
Gen Cass was called to the administrator
of the War Department by Gen. jackson.
In 1885 Or 1856, in consequence Of Il
health, he retired from this position, much
to the regret OF Gen jackson, who tender
cd him the mission to France, where he adj
ded to his fame in defeating the quintnple
treaty, through which England desired to
search the vessels of all nations traversing
the ocean In 1s45, after his return fronl
] France, he was elected to the United States
Senate from Michigan, and in 1913 nomi-
mated for the presidency, but defeated H.
was one of the leading friends of the com
promise of 1850, and subsequently, ably
supported the Kansas-Nebraska measure
On the 18th inst. his term expired in the C.
S. Senate, and he was succeeded by re.
publican. Although seventy years of age,
Gen, Gass is apparently younger than moss
men at sixty, and there is no doubt from his
, intellectual and bodily vigor, that his adj
mnistration of the State Department will
fully sustain his previous high reputation
7 coBB, OF GEORGIA.
4 The Secretary of the Treasury was bern
at Cherry Hill, Georgia, in 1915. He is
the son Of Col. John A. Cobb, who, when
quite boy, removed from Grelnville, y.
4 c., with his father. His mother, Sarah r.
Cobb, was the daughter of the late Thomas
Roots of Fredericksburg, va. In the year
1884, when only nineteen, Mr.. Cobb grad
uated at Franklin College, Georgia, and III
the following year he married Mary Ann,
daughter of the late Col. Zachariah Lamar,
of Aillodgeville, Georgia, by whom he has
had six sons, three of whom are dead, the
two youngest DIVING at Washington city du-
ring the first session of the thirtieth Con
gress. 1t may not be uninteresting to men
tion that his uncle, Howell Cobb, after
: whom be was named, represented a district
of Georgia in the Congress of the United
States during the last war with Great Brit
utii. anu HIS tcuslh, uOlitus tObus WIS iipi
many wears since United States Senator
from the same State In 1886 Mr. Cobt
was admitted to the bar, and at once gave
such evidence Of talents, character and at
Enthusiastically possessed by one of hi
age--that in the ensuing year he was elect
ed by the Georgia Legislature solctor-een
cral of the western circuit Having early ii
life obtained political fame as Jackson q
Union" democrat, III 1912 Mr.. Cobb VA.
elected On general ticket to the Congress,
Of the United States it being his first ser.
vice in any legislative body. Since that
tune he has been frequently reelected. He
has served one term as Governor of his n;t,
tive State, and as Speaker of the e. State,
House Of Representatives, and in every po
stion has been noted for his industry an
ability,
SECRETARY OF WAR--HoN. JOHN BrcHANAa
FLoYp, OF VIRGINIA.
The Secretary of War has long been
prominent politician in the western part o
Virginia. and is a State rights democrat o
the school of strict construction. He ha.
filled the Office of Governor Of the State, anl
during the last election was domocrati,
presidential elector. Governor Foyd's pub
lie service has been exclusively confined tC