The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-11
rHE NEW CABINET.
Brief Biographical Sketches Of President
Hayes Counsellors.

Boston, MASSACHUSETTS, In AfeDruary,
1918; and was the son Of: jeremiah
Evarts, a lawyer and writer Of some
note, and on his mothers side, grand
SON of Roger Sherman. He graduated
at Yale College in 1887; studied law at
Cambridge, and came to the bar in New
York City in 1910, and attached a high
position a lawyer. He was the lead
ing counsel employed to defend Presi-
dent johnson in his trial before the
tsenste; was Attorney-G General Of the
United States from July 1858, to March,
1869, when he resigned; was one Of the
three lawyers appointed to defend the
interests of the United States before
the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva,
1871, to settle the "Alabama Claims;"
and he was one of the counsel who de-
Tended Henry Ward Beecher in 1875.
In 1857 he received the degree Of Doc
tor or Laws from Union College; and
he is the author of several legal produc-
tions. In November, 1875. he was in
vited by the Centennial Commission to
deliver the opening Grafton at the Ex-
hibition in 1876, the kindred honor, for
reciting a poem on that occasion, having
been conferred on Henry w. Longfel-
low. bai
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY JOHN
SHERMAN.
John Sherman was born in Lancas-
ter, Ohio, May 10, 1923; received a lib
eral education; adopted the profession
of law, and came to the bar in 1874.
In 1848 and 1852 he was a delegate to
the Wing convention of those years;
in 1854 he wa elected a representative
from Ohio to the Thirty-fourth Con-
gress; reelected to the T~hirty-ffth;
and on being returned to the Thirty
sixth Congress, he was the Republican
candidate for speaker, and after an IN
precedented contest, wanted only one
or two votes to secure his election.
During that Congress he was chairman
of the committee on ways and mea
In 1860 he was elected to the Thirty
seventh Congress, but in 1851, on the
resignation of Senator Chase, he was
chosen a senator. in Congress, serving
as chairman Of the committees on agri-
culture and finance, and as a member
of those on the Pacific railroad and the
judiciary. In January, 1866, he was
reelected to the Senate for the term
commencing in 1867 and ending in
| 1873, serving again at the head of the
| finance committee, and on those On the
| Patent office and the Pacific railroad.
The distinguished General bearing his
name is his brother. Reelected for
the term ending in 1879.
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR scHURz.
Carl Schurz was born near Cologne,
Germany, March 2, 1929; educated at
the university of Bonn; while yet a
young man, he became identified with
the press, and edited a paper identified
with the revolution of 184S; took part
in the defense of Rastadt, after which
he fled to Switzerland; subsequently re-
sided in Paris and London, where he
was a teacher and correspondent for
three years, and emigrated to this
country in 1852. He was a delegate to
the Chicago convention of 1860, taking
a leading part in its proceedings; in
1861 he was selected by President Lin
coin as minister to Spain, which posi-
ton he o o resigned he was then ap-
pointed a brigadier general of volun-
teers, and was present at the second
battle of Bull Run, and at the battle
of Gettysburg; after the wa he was
appointed a commissioner to visit the
southern states and report upon the
affairs of the freedmen's bureau; in
1865 and 1866 he was a Washington
correspondent for the New York Trib-
une; was subsequently connected with
the press of Detroit and st. Louis; was
a delegate to the Chicago convention of
1868; and elected a senator in Congress
from Missouri for the term commence
ing in 1869 and ending in 1875, serving
on the committees on pensions. terri
tories, and military affairs.
SECRETARY OF WAR THOMPSON.
Richard w. Thompson, the new Sec
rotary Of War, was a Wing politician
of the old school, and is little known to
the present generation outside of his
own State. He was born in Culpepper
county, Va, and is about 10 years Of
age. Before he wa 81 he emigrated
into the wilds of Kentucky, and in 1881
settled in Louisville, where he was a
clork in a mercantile house. He sub
~sequently removed to Indiana. and
taught school in Lawrence county. He
studied law and was admitted to the
bar in 1884. His first political service
was as a representative in the Indiana
legislature, to which he was elected in
1884 and reelected IN 1885. In 1885
he became State Senator, and served
two years, acting a portion of the time
as President of the Senate and Lieuten-