Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-03-24
NEW MINISTER'S APPOINTED.

TIE Gsvernmenrs Representatives 20 Eng
Isss. Mexico. France. aud GersnssJ.
lBy telegraph To the Dispatch.l
WASHINGTON, March 23.--Edward
J. Phelps, who was nominated to-day
as Minister to England, is q prominent
lawyer Of Burlington, VT. He is about
sixty years Of age, and pcsscssor of a
moderate fortune. He is an ex-presi-
dent Of the American Bar Association,
and has practiccd before the Supreme
Court in Washington, and il highly
esteemed as lawyer and man Of cul-
ture. He has several times been the
Democratic candidate for Governor OF
Vermont, but as far as is known here
has never held public Office. For the
two years past he delivered lectures on
law to the graduating class Of Yale Col
lege. Mr.. Phelps is son of cx-Sena-
tor Phelps, of Vermont. Senator Ed
munds was his legal preccptor.
Mr.. Phelps is a personal friend OF
Justice Field, Of the Supreme Court,
who speaks in the highest terms Of his
learning and ability.
Henry Rootes jackson, nominated as
Minister to Mexico, is native OF Geor-
gia and is sixty-four years of age. He
was the colonel Of Georgia regiment
in the Mexican war. In 1853 he was
sent to represent the United States at
Vienna, Austria, where he remained
five years. During the late civil war
he was southern brigadier-general.
He is man Of independent fortune, and
is highly endorsed by prominent men of
his State. Mr.. Jackson is the author
of several poems. Tallulah " being
among them.
Robert NJ. McLane, Of Maryland,
nominated as Minister to France, was
born in Wilmington, Del, in 1915. lie
was educated at st. Mary's College,
Baltimore, and at College Bourbon, in
Paris, France. lie was appointed by
General Jackson cadet at West Point,
and after graduation there, in 1887,
served in the Florida war and in the
Northwest as lieutenant of artillery.
He resigned from the army ia lS43,
studied law in Washington, and re-
moved to Baltimore, where he began
the practice of law. lie was member
of the Maryland Legislature in lS45-46 ;
was a member Of the Thirtieth aud
1hirty-first congresses was appointed
by President Pierce in 1852 Minister to
China, aud was appointed by President
buchanan Minister to Mexico IN 1859.
but resigned in 1860. lie was elected
to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh
congresses, and declined nomination
for the forty-eighth Congress. He was
elected Governor of Maryland in 1888
for term Of four years, beginning
January, 1884.
George II. PendletOn, of Cincinnati,
the new Minister to Germany, was
born at Cincinnati, o., July 10, 1925 /;
received an academic education i'll the
schools of Cincinnati. and aiterward in
Europe studied law was admitted to
the bar. and has continued ever since
to practice law at Cincinnati; was a
member Of the State Senate of Ohio in
1854 and 1855 was representative
from Ohio in the Thrty-fifth. Thirty
sixth, Thirty-Seyenth. and Thirty
eighth congresses was the Democratic
candidate for vicc-Prcsideni on the
ticket headed by George NJ. Clcllan in
1864; was the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Ohio in 1869 was
elected to the United States Senate as a
Democrat to succeed Stanley Mat
thews Republican), and took his seat
March Is, 1879. His term expired
March . 1884,