The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-10

WHEkE THEY CAME FROM AND
WHAT THEY HAVE DONE.
Washington, March 6.-The whole
cabinet was unanimously confirmed
yesterday afternoon. 1t IL stated that
the question of referring the names to
committees was discussed at some
length in executive session, but met
with so little support that there was not
even single objection which would
have carried the matter over for day
and the subject was dropped without
vote, whereupon each nomination
was in turn unanimously confirmed.
The cabinet IL, therefore as follows:
Secretary of State-Janes G. Blaine,
Maine.
Secretary of the William
Window, Minnesota.
Secretary Of the Interior-Samuel J.
Kiikwood, Iowa.
Secretary of War-Robert T. Lin
eoln, Illinois.
Secretary of the Navy-William Fl.
Hunt, Louisiana.
Postmaster General - Thomas l..
James, New York.
Attorney General - Wayne Mac.
Veagh, Pennsylvaia.
Hon. JAMES G. BLAINE.
Mr.. Blaine's career as q statesman is
familiar to our people. Mr.. Blaine is
native OF this state, and was born in
Washington county, on the 31st of
January, 1880. He graduated at
Washington college, Pennsylvania, in
1S47. After two or three years spent
in teaching he adopted the editorial
profession and removed to Maine in
1852, where he successfully edited the
Kennebec Journal and the Portland
advertiser, the two leading Republi-
can papers in the state at that time.
In 1858 Mr.. Blaine was elected to the
state legislature from the city of Au-
gusta. He served four consecutive
years in that body, the last two as
speaker of the house of Representa-
tives. In 1862 Mr.. Blaine was elected
to the thirty-eight congress from the
Third congressional district of Maine,
and was six times reelected by very
large majorties.
On July 10, 1876, he was elected by
thC NdlllC lIO
States senate to fill the vacancy occa-
stoned by the resignation of Hon. Lot
M. Morrill,, who had been appointed
secretary of the treasury by President
Grant, and when that term expired he
was reelected FOR the ensuing term,
which expires March 3, 1855. Mr..
Blaine has figured prominently as an
aspirant for the nomination of the
presidential candidate of the Repulli-
can party, and at the conventions of
1S76and 1880 nearly won the prize
He had a very strong following in
both conventions, receiving in 1880 as
high as 285 votes.
Hon. WAYNE MACVEAaH.
Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, the new
attorney General, was born i'm Chester
county, Pennsylvania, April l9, 1888
He graduated at Yale college, in the
class of 1853, and, adopting the profess
sion of law, was admitted to the bar,
April 26, 1856. Having entered upon
the active practice of the profession, he
become district attorney of Chester
county, and remained so for three
years. During the civil war he served
as captain of militia cavalry in 1862,
and a. a majo on the staff of Major
that year he was also chairman of the
Republican state central committee
of Pennsylvania. Under the first adj
ministration of President Grant he
was appointed United States minister
to Constantinople. In 1872 he was
elected as a Republican delegate re-
presenting the Twelfth senatorial dis
trict, composed of the counties of
Dauphin and Lebanon, to the coDsti-
tutional convention.
At the beginning of 1876, Mr.. Mac
Veagh removed his law office from
Harrisburgh to Philadelphia. and has
since made that city tie chief scene of
his professional labors. He still has
a residence, however, in Lower Mer-
ion township. Montgomery county,
where he recently purchased fine
farm which is situated a mile or two
from Conshohocken.
Hon. WILLIAM WINDOW.
Hon. William Window. of Mime.
sofa, who has been selected as secre-
tary of the treasury, was born in Bel
mont county, Ohio, May 10, 1925.
His parents were both from Virginia
His fathers people came from North
Carolina and his mother from a FAM
lily of Pennsylvania Quakers. Liv-
ing beyond the Alleghanies, Mr..
Window had but few opportunities in
his boyhOOd to obtain am education,
and ii was not until he was twenty
three years old before he left the ac-
cademy III Knox county, Ohio. He
then studied for the bar, and upon be-
ing admitted began practice in the
town of Mount Vernon. In 1852 his
political life commenced by his elec-
tion, as a whig, to the office of public
prosecutor. In 1855 he married and
removed to Winona, Minnesota,
where he has since lived. In 1859 he
ran on the whig ticket for the Thirty
sixth congress and was elected. He
was subsequently, four times conse-
cutively unanimously renOminated,
and this i'm district when Repuhli-
can nomination was equivalent to an
election. He declined "A denomination
at the end of his fifth term, hut the
governor sent him to the senate to fill
the uneXpired term of Senator Morton
and since that time he has been twice
returned to the senate by the unani-
nous vote of his party. At the be
ginning of his political career Mr..
Window was a devoted follower of
Henry Clay, and was an ardent pro-
tectionist. He was also actively identi-
In 1873 he was chairman of special
OH transportation.
Hon. THOMAS l.. JAMES.
Hon. Thomas l.. James, the newly