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to the problems of interstate commerce,
cheap transportation and the advance
ment of agricultural interests. He was
appointed Senator in July, 1870, to fill
the unexpired term of Daniel S. Norton
was elected for the full term of lS7l-77
and reelected for the term expiring in
1888 As Senator he has been promi
nent in connection with his advocacy of
Capt. Eads' Mississippi jetties wrote an
elaborate report as Chairman of n com
mittee on transportation, was also Chair
man of the important Committee on APP
preparations, was the proposer of the
exodus investigation, and has quite re.
Gently figured as the pronounced oppo-
| nent of mOnopolics.
| SAMUEL j. HARDWOOD, SECRETARY OF
THE INTERIOR.
The third in Importance of the Cabi.
net portfolios has been awarded to Sena-
tor and Ex-Governor Samuel j. Kirk
wood, of Iowa. Governor Krkwood was
born Dec. 20, 1913. in Hartford county.
| Maryland near the Susquehanna river and
the head of Chesapeake Bay, in a region
noted for the number of eminent men it
has produced. He is consequently sixty
eight years Of age, being the oldest mem
Der of the new administration and one
of the oldest now in public life at Wash
ingtOn. His early education was chiefly
received at the Federal capital in the
academy taught by John Mcleod His
political guardian angel inspired him in
1885 with the happy thought of becom-
ing an "Ohio man." and for twenty
years thereafter he was a citizen of Rich
land county on the edge of the Western
Reserve. He studied law, was in 1913
admitted to the bar at Mansfield, the
home of the Shermans; was elected
Prosecuting Attorney of Richland county
in 1915 and 1917, and sat in lS5O-5l in
the convention which framed the present
Constitution of Ohio. In 1898 he settled
in johnson county, Iowa, where in the
following year he was chosen State Scna-
tor, was elected Governor in 1889 and
again in 1861, being one of the rcmarka-
BILE group of "War Governors to whom
was due so much of the glory of the sup
preston Of the rebellion. In 1868 he
declined the offered mission to Denmark,
succeeded James Harlan as United States
Senator for the period 1867, was again
chosen Governor in 1873. and resigned
that Office in January, 1877, on his sec
ond election to the United States Senate
for the period ending in 1888. Governor
KirkwOOd has the reputation of being Il
trough diamond" "a bluff, hearty, quaint
genius in homespun, strongly resembling
President Lincoln in height, general de-
meanOr and indifference to outward APP
pearances. He is said to be erich in
saving common sense" and will need it
all if he is to make success of his in
cumbency of that graveyard of reputa-
tons, the Interior Department. lie
knows all about the land question and
the Indian question, has views of his own
about agriculture, and will heartily sec
Ond the intentions of President Garfield
with reference to the education of the
freedman and the honest supervision of
the Patent, Pension and other bureaus
which make up his important depart
ment.
ROBERT TODD LINCOLN, SECRETARY OF
W \ Ia.
The personal history of the new Secre-
tary of War is brief one, except in 50
far as it falls within that of his father,
the martyr President. Descended pater-
nally from one of the four Thomas Lin
coins, who were at the same time pioneer
emigrants from bingham, England, to
bingham, Mass, and grand nephew Of
Daniel Boone, the pioneer of Kentucky,
he was born at Springfield, ILL.,, in 1911,
being the eldest and now the only sur
viving son of Abraham Lincoln. He re-
ccived good education at the schools Of
that city and at Exeter Academy, n. H.;
graduated at Harvard College and TT.
sided at the White House during much
of the cvcntful period when it was the
center of the nations dcstinics. After
the assassination OF his father he settled
in Chicago, ILL.,, where he studied and
has since practiced law, and has acquired
an enviabIe reputation as a good citizen
and success sful lawyer. He married the
only daughter of ex-Sccretary James
Harlan, of Iowa, and owes his present
appointment primarily to the two Sena-
tors from Illinois, General Logan and
David Davis, who, doubtless, reflect the
sentiments Of vast public which ar
IDENTIFY desires that the son of such Il
father may achieve the highest political
success
WILLIAM II. HUNT, SECRETARY or THE
NAVY.
Judge William II. Hunt, of the Court
of Claims, the new Secretary of the
Navy, is Il native of South Carolina and
rt.. 4 in Louisiana in early life He
vas educated at Yale College, studded
and practiced law in New Orleans, gaining
a brilliant position at the Louisiana Bar
and like his brothers, Randall and DR..
Thomas Hunt, and all his family, was
uncomprOmising in his loyalty to the
Union cause. He gained a large prac-
tice in commercial maratimc and adj
miralty law. He was thoroughly
trained criminal lawyer, an able solicitor
in Chancery, and for some years pro-
fessor of commercial and criminal law
and the law of evidence in the New Or
leans Law School. He was ready and
able writer, was valued adviser to Gems
Butler and Banks in Louisiana, was an
old Wing before the war and moderate
Democrat for several subsequent years,
but ultimately joined the Republican
party and was elected Attorney General
in 1876 on the Packard ticket. in 1877 |
he settled at Washington as a lawyer.
In 1878 he was urged for the post of
Collector of New Orleans, but was given
instead a Judgship in the Court of
Claims. He was recently recon-
mended by the Bar of Louisiana, with
out distinction of party, for seat on
the Supreme Bench il place of Justice
Strong, but the prize was awarded to
Judge Woods. His decisions in the
Court of Claims for the past two years
show him to be dilligent, learned aud