Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-03-14
Cabinet Officers.
WILLIAM MAXWELL FVARTS


College, and was 9 member of the class
of the class of 1887. In 1S41, after a
course of study in the Harvard Law
School, he was admitted to the bar of
New York, where, by force of intellect
and his superior powers, he very soon
rose TO a prominence which he has
since found himsslf able to improve
upon. He received the degree of
LID. from Union College in 1857,
from Yale in 1865 and from Harvard
in 1870 Mr.. Evarta has never until
this appointment, held but Que public
position that could Ia the usual sense
of the word be called IN Office In
1868 he was leading counsel Ter the
defense Of Andrew Johnson, who was
then President OF tho United States,
and under impeachment; and from the
close OF that trial until the end of Mr.
Johnson's term, be was the Attorney
General. He was leading counsel for
the United States in the Alabama ar
bitraion at Geneva in 1872.
SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN,
Of Ohio, Secretary Of the Treasury,
was born at Lancaster, O., in May,
1928. He studied in the Mount Yer
non school a while, and then at the
age of Il was sent out to earn his own
living. He earned it on the Muskin-
gum, in the employ Of the Muskingum
Improvement Company, where he be-
came acquainted with the science of
engineering. Al l6 years Of age lie
dissolved partnership With the Mus
kingum Company, and went to Mans
field, where, in the Office OF his brother
Charles, he applied himself to the
study Of the law. When nc reached
his majority he was regularly admitted
to the bar, and for eleven years there
after was a partner with his brother,
doing the outside business for tle firm.
Sherman first get into political gotioa
as member Of the Wing National
Conventions ia 1913 aud 1852. In
the latter year he was q Presidential
Eectoy. Two years later be was
elected to Congress, and subsequently
reelected twice. In 1861 he was
again sent TO Congress, and in the fol-
lowing year the Legislature OF the
State lifted him u iato the Senate, in
which body he was qUs g2on the ri
rance Committee 60 him IS largely
due the ozis5auoe, in lis present shape,
of the greenbaob, as we'll as of national
banks. Ia the Thirty ninth Congress
he fathered the Reconstruction law.
In the Fortieth Congress he was again
put upon the Finance Committee, and
introduced the measure known as the
Sherman Resumption act.
RICHARD W. THOMSON,
Secretary of the Navy, is Virginian.
He was born in Culpepper in 1900.
In 1919 he pushed West as far as
Kentucky, and in 1873: took position
as clerk in store at Louisville. He
went to Indiana, where for short
time, he taught school. aud then, in
1884, vas admitted to the bar. In Il 9
same year he was sent up to the Leg
islature for three months, which time
he served out, only to find his way
back again the next year. The next
year after that, being by this time an
old offender, be was sent to the State
Senate for two years. While serving
this term he was part of the time
called upon to act as Lieutenant Gov
ernor, and part as President of the
Senate He was Harrison Presiden-
tial Elector in 1910. The same year
he was rcmanded to office and sent to
Congress. He was in full enjoymel
Of his liberty after that until 1S47,
when he was sent back to Congress,
and then again in 1864. This was the
last public Office he held. In the GIN
cinnati Convention of June last Mr..
Thomson was the mouthpiece of bis
delegation and made the speech nom-
mating Morton.
CARL sCHURZ,
Secretary of the Interior, was born in
1920, at Liviar, village near the city
OF Cologne, Germany. At II years of
age he entered the University of Bonn.
to which institution he went from the
Gymnasium of Cologne. He was
obliged to leave in 1S4S for trying to
incite Bonn to insurrection. He pro-
ceeded to the Palatinate, and there as
sisted in the defense of Rastadt
whence he escaped to Switzerland.
In 1852 he came to America and al
most instantly took up with the anti
slavery people. When the war broke
out he was Minister to Spain, a position
which he resigned in order to come
home and enter the army, where he
rose to the rank of Major General.
Two years after the close Of the war
be was elelted to represent Missouri in
the United States Senate.
CHARLES DEVENEs,
Attorney General, is a Massachusetts
man, who has not figured with any
prominence in public affairs of late