The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-03-13
Sketches of the Men.
,-r,v svcprrIpv OFF STATE

VHE SEChEIAh1 II b1A4E.
Thomas f. Bayard of Delaware was born at
Wilmington on the 29th of October, 1928. As a
boy he always exCelled in his studies, although
he was anxious liz early youth to become one Of
Americas merchant princes, and was inclined
to throw overheard all the possibilities OF politl-
cal greatness which were incident TO his posi-
ton as member of the ruling house OF Delaware.
His early education was obtained principally at
the Flushing" school at Wilmington. He was
persuaded 10 give up his mercantile ambition
and to study for the legal profession. He was
admitted to the bar in 1851, and had soon built
up an excellent practice extending all over the
state. In 1858 he was appointed by the presl-
dent as United States district attorney, but soon
afterward abandoned the office. It was in
March. 1869. that he was chosen to sue
coed his father, Hon. James A. Bayard, as
United States senator. be was u sterling
adherent to the doctrines OF the Democratic
party, and came IN a short time to be regarded
as one Of their ablest eXpOncuts in the upper
house. Through the framing of oil the latter
reconstruction legislation he stood as the repre-
sentative of the large part OF the Northern peo-
pie that believed in dealing equitably by the
Southern states: and, although i'll the minority,
he made himself felt in the advocacy of their
cause. He was rejected in 1878, and became u
membar Of the electoral commission, voting with
his Democratic colleagues against the seating Of
Rutherford B.. Hayes in the presidential chair.
Throughout the greenback discussion Mr. lay
ard is noted for his strong conservatism on
financial questions: is a moderate tariff man
and a strict cOnstructionist and economist. At
the Cincinnati convention, in 1880, he was next
" LldLNbSh OA IHC LtNG N'dAioN lNSGANtksE 100
votes to III for Hancock. On the second ballot
the nomination was made. He was last elected
TO the senate in 1881, and his present term ex-
pires in 1885.
THE SECRETARY OF H TREASURY.
Mr.. Manning was born in Albany, n. 7, Aug,
I6, 1881. His parentage was of Irish, English
and Dutch extraction. He was u poor boy, and
his early opportunities for schooling were very
limited. At eleven years of age he went to work
as an office boy at the establishment of the Al
bany Atlas, which was atterward merged into
NLa No. Ar-.n fN Nrhfah. nVNnv lac hna mar
since, in one capacity or another, been connect
ed. In 1873 he assumed sole charge of the Ar
gus, and was elected president of the company,
which position he yet holds, though he has done
little or no writing for some time. He was a
member of the Democratic state convention OF
1874 that nominated Samuel j. Tilden
for governor, and was a DELEGATE to
nominated Mr.. Tilden for president. He has
been a member of the Democratic state commit
tee since 1876. Was its secretary in 1879 and
1880, and was elected chairman in 1881. which
place he now fills. He was warmly interested in
the nomination of Mr.. Cleveland for president
at Chicago last Julv. and II is generally conceded
that he showed great skill in the convention as
the head of the New York delegation. MI. Man
ming has been active and successful outside OF
journalism and politics. He has long been a
director of the Albany IL Susquehanna Railway
company and Is president OF the National Com
mercial bank of Albany, of which he was first
director and then vice president. He is also
park commissioner of Albany and is a director
Va tAS AAtJAlAN JlAISNll ~ I4t@Alb OAAEdAN
THE OF TIE INTERIOR.
Lucius @. c. Lamar of Oxford, Miss. was born
Ia Putnam county, Ga, Sept. IL, 1925; was edu"
Gated at oxford. Ga, and graduated at Emory
college, Georgia, in 1915: studied law at Macon,
Ga, under the Hon. A III. Chappell, and was adj
mitted to the bar in 1S47: moved TO Oxford,
Miss, in 1S49: was elected adjunct professor Of
mathematics in the university of the state. and
held the position as assistant to DR.. A L. Bled-
soc editor or the Southern Review, which he
resigned in 1850, and returned to Covington,
10 xptrnpaa En ragFrpard tha ~ronffna ~ lauys ,.o1
elected TO the legislature of Georgia in 1858; in
1851 moved 20 his plantation in Lafayette
county, Miss, and was elected to the Thirty
fifth and Thirty-sixth congresses of the United
States, and resigned in 1850 TO take a seat in
the secession convention of his state; in 1861
entered the confederate army as lieutenant
colonel OF the Nineteenth regiment, and was pro-
NOTED TO the colonelcy; in 1868 was intrusted
by President Davis with an important diplo-
matte mission to Russia: in 1866 was elected
professor Of political economy and social science
In the University of Mississippi, and in 1867
was transferred TO the professorship of law;
was elected to the Forty-thfrd congress of the
United States, and was reelected to the Forty
fourth congress: and was elected to the United
States senate as q Democrat, to succeed James
Lusk Alcorn, independent, and took his seat
March 5. 1877; was reelected in g His
term OF service in the senate will expire March
3, 1889.
THE SECRETARY or WAR.
William Crowninshield Endicott, Mr.. Cleve-
aads secretary OF wal, Was born In Salem IN
$500 $50 ~ " At1ANNA = apANRA A4hak
colt and Mary, daughter Of Hon. Jacob Crownin-
shield, who was a representative to congress-.
lie attended the Salem schools, and was gradua-
ted from Harvard college in the class of IS47
He married his cousin. a daughter of George
Peabody, and has Two children, q son and a
daughter. Judge Endicott studied at Harvard
law school, and read law IN the office Of tiie late
Nathaniel j. Lord. He was admitted to the bar
about 1850. and a few years later formed a part
nership with the late J. w. Perry. and continued
with him until his appointment by Gov Wash
burn to a seat on the gr1nrprna bench in I2T2
This position he held until 1892. when he re-
signed on account OF his health. In 1882 he
male an extended gonr or the continent He was
9 member OF the salem common council IN 1852,
1858 and 1857, when he was elected president OF
that beard He was city solicitor from 1853 te
1865 he - Q member OF the historical society
and OF the board OF 0verseers OF Harvard college.
Politically Mr.. Endicott Is of Wing antecedents
his Affiliations with the Democratic party darins
from the Beil-Eyerett campaign OF 1860, bnt he
mas never been an active politician. Last tall he
WAS the candidate OF his party fp< governor IL
the state bat did ret himself appear IN the can
vass, and received . Comparatively small vote.
~ 2 lawyer and q Judge Mr. Endicott holds
high rank, and personally he is a gentlemen OF
the highest character. The Judge has never
neen an active party man, and IL Is limited, has
supposed notably to have been the case when
Gen. Butler was the Democratic candidate foa
governor. Last fall, as Buffers successor on
that Of his associates. His home is in the old
Puritan city of Salem, and he is a descendant-
said to bethe oldest lineaI descendant-of the
Puritan Governor John Endicott, who cut che red
cross out Of the British Dag. as la dramatically
related In one or Hawthorne's -Twi. e-told
Tales In person Mr.. Endicott bears a striking
Just As the features 81 MI. n q W a9nshlos;
o. Boston. the orator ct the foundation and also
ae the completion OF the Washington monument
AZ the national capital strikinely resemble those
Endicott's colonial rival
THE ~sEcnETARY or THE NAVY.