The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-03-21
THE NEW CABINET.

THE NEW CABINET.
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Brief Biographies Of President cIeve
lands Advisers.
We take particular pleasure in presentin
our readers with faithful portraits of Presi
dent Cleveland's advisers, the heads of tn
i. Executive Departments at Washington, il
,9ae group, with accompanying brie
sketches of these eminent persons.
THOMAS r. BAYARD.
Thomas Francis Bayard of Delaware il
the first in the list, as Secretary of State
He was born in the State Of which he is an
honored son, October %, 1928. His early
ambition was for mercantile career, but
he was persuaded to read law, and in 1851
was admitted to the bar. In 1853 he was
appointed by President Pierce United
States District Attorney, but soon resigned
the Office. He succeeded his father as Uni
ted States Senator in March, 1869, was re-
elected in 1875, and again in 1881. As a
member of the Electoral Commission, after
the disputed election Of 1876, he voted with
the unsuccessful seven. Secretary Bayard
has been strongly supported for nomina-
ton to the Presidency.
-. DANIEL MANNING.
Daniel Manning of New York, Secretary
Of the Treasury, was born in Albany, New
York, about forty years ago. His
parents we're extremely poor, @ and at an
early age he was employed in the Office Of
the Albany Argus. Rising step by step he
became oompositor on that journal, then a
Of the company owning it. Mr.. Manning
IL an intimate friend Of Samuel j. Tilden
aud President Cleveland. He has been
twice married, the second time recently,
and has two children by his first wife, SOD
and daughter.
WILLIAM c. RNDICoTT.
The New Secretary. OF War, William C..
Badicott of Massachusetts, was born at
Salem, in the Bay State, where he now re-
sides, in the year 1927. He was educated
at Salem and Harvard College. After his
graduation in 1847 he entered the Harvard
Law School, and having completed the
course Of lectures read law in the Office of
an pminent firm. He was admitted toSthe
bar In 1850, and rose to sminence in his
profession. In 1873 he was appointed by
Governor Wash6urn Judge Of the Su-
preme Court of Massachusetts. His health
being bad he resigned this Office in 1882,
and subsequently spent considerable time
In travel. Before 1860 he was member of
she Wing party. He was an unsuccessful
candidate for the Governorship of Massa-
chusetts last fall.
WILLIAM O. WHITNEY.
The responsibilities of the head Of the
Navy Department have been assumed by
William G. Whitney of New York, who was
born at Conway, Massachusetts, in 1889.
He received a superior education, including
the full course at Yale College. After grad
uation he entered the law class at Harvard
and graduated there in 1865. He removed
to New York city, where he was admitted
to the bar and where he continues the prac-
tice of his profession. He has been an
active member of the Democratic party.
AS Corporation Counsel of New York seven
years Ing manifested great ability and use
fulnesss He is rich and the son-in-lav of
Senator Payne of Ohio. As Secretary of
the Navy he will find ample scope for his
industry and capability.
LUC1Us @. 9. LAMAR.
Mississippi is represented in the Cabinet |
by L. Q. G. Lamar, who is Georgian by |
birth. he received an academical educa-
ton. read law and was admitted to the bar. |
IN 1849 he became professor of mathe-
mates at the State University, Oxford,
Mississippi. Returning to Georgia he
practiced law at Covington In that State,
md began his career az a statesman BY
serving one term in it's Legislature. He
returned to Mississippi in 1884, vas elected
to the Thirty fifth Congress and the next.
resigned when his State seeded and be-
came Lieutenant Colonel in the Confed-
crate Army. He was sent to St. Pete rsburu
by the government at Richmond in 1863
After the war he resumed teaching at the
University of Mississippi, and while Pro-
fessor Of Law in that Institution was elected
to the Forty-third Congress. He took mis-
seat IA Senator March 3, 1877, and WAS
elected the second time in 1882 for the term
ending March 3, 1889. g
WILLIAM F.@vILAs.
Postmaster General Villas Of Wisconsin
was born at Chelsea, Vermont, in 1910.
When II years of ags he removed to Wis
cousin, where he was literally educated.
He graduated from the Law School at AL
bany, New York, in 1860, and was admitted
to the bar of the Empire State. He began
to practice in Wisconsin in the same year.
the volunteer service as Captain
he rose to be Lieutenant Colonel during the
war but resigned his commission and re-
the practice of the law, Janu-
ary l, 1854. He refused the nomination for
Governor in 1879. At the Democratic con-
rention OF last year he was permanent
chairman, and thus became known to the
nation. *
AUGUSTUS Il. GARLAND,
Anuuakna II GarJond ~ A.I,~ +,