The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-03-19
MIR. CLEvELAND,s CABINET.


Short sketches of the men selected to
preside over the different federal de-
partments:
THOMAS F. BAYARD
was born in Wilmington, Delaware,
on the goth of October, 1929. He re-
ceived most of his education at Flush
ing school. He afterwards came to
New York, and had some exper-
returned to Delaware and studied law
with his father, Hon. James A. Bay
ard, who was then in the Senate. He
was admitted to the bar in 1851, and
| two years later he was appointed
United Stases District Attorney for
Delaware, but resigned in 1854 and
went to live in Philadelphia, where he
remained until 1856 and then returned
! to Wilmington. lie remained there
practicing mis- profession, and in the
winter 1868 he was elected to the
Senate to succeed his father. He was
reelected in 1875 and also in 1881, and
was a member of the Electoral
Commission in 1876. He is the
| fourth member of his family who
have served in the Senate. The
others were his grandfather, James
Ashton Bayard, who was elected IN
1904 and served till 1913, when Presi-
dent Madison appointed him one of
the commissioners to negotiate the
treaty of Client. His uncle, Richard
II. Bayard, was elected to the Senate
in 1886 and again in 1S4l, and his
father served there from 1851 to 1859
| nAArrET
Daniel Manning is in his oath year.
He was born in Albany, n. Y, Au-
gust 16, 1881, OF an ancestry ranging
into Irish, English and Dutch-the
stock which settled Albany. His
early life was one of hard work
and trial. At the age of II years ne
entered the Office of the Albany Atlas,
NOW the Argus as office boy; but,
making up his mind to acquire a
knowledge of all the branches of the
newspaper business, he worked his
way through the printing office as
compositor and foreman, then became
a reporter, and afterward an associate
leditor, rising finally to the post of
executive administration and bust
ness management. His political
training under Calvert Causbeck and
|
with public affairs, and in 1873 he
succeeded Mr.. Cassidy as president of
Z the Argus Company. Mr. Manning
actively aided Samuel j. Tilden and
] Charles O'Conor in the war against
the Tweed Ring, and he was mem
Der of the State Democratic Conven-
ton at Syracuse in 1874 which nomi-
mated Mr. Tilden for Governor. Mr..
Manning has never before held public
Office, but he has been actively engag.
ed in business enterprises, and in 1882
{ became President of the National
|. Commercial Bank of Albany, of which
he had previously been Dlrec
tor and Vice-president. He was
married in 1853 to Mary Little, lady
of English parentage, VINO died II
:, 1882, leaving four sons and daughters
! grown to the age OF maturity.
WILLIAM c. ENDIOoTT
was born in Salem, in 1927, and is thu
+ son of William 2. Endicott. He at
q tended the Salem schools and gradu
ated from Harvard in 1917. He
studied law at the Harvard Law
= School, and afterwards read law IL
T the office of Nathaniel J. Lord. HI
= was admitted to the bar in 1850, ant
g afterwards formed partnership witt
e j. W. Perry and continued will
:, him until he was appointed to {
: seat on the Supreme bench b.
Governor Washburn in 1888. IL
g held this seat until he resigned it il
y 1882 on account of Ill health, and thai
: same year he made an extended toul
D of the continent. He was membe
5, of the Salem common council IN 1852
It 1853 and 1857, when he was electe'
President of that board. He was cit.
solicitor from 1858 to 1863. He is
member of the Historical Society an(
of the board of overseers Of Harvard
s College. He is direct descendant o
Gov. John Endicott. He is POLITICAL!
i of Wing antecedents his aftili
L alton with the democrati
g party dating back to 1850. He ha
never taken part in politics. He wa
is tbs Democratic candidate for gov
1t ef2br last fall, but took no persona
70 interest in the campaign. AS law
n yer and Judge he holds high rank
l. and personally he is gentleman O
y the highest integrity.
l. WILLIAM @. WHITNEY
~ was born in Conway, Massachusetts
If in 1889. His father was Gen. jaime
Al S. Whitney. After graduating fror
q Williston Seminary, at EasthamptoI
q he entered Yale College, and late
- on went to Harvard Law Schoo
" from which he graduated in 1865. l
= the practice of his profession he wa
q noted for fidelity and fearlessness.
m 1871 Mr.. Whitney took prominer
= part in the organization Of the YouD
N Mems Democratic Club OF New Yorl
n He is a strong friend of Samuel Z
n Tilden, and took an active part in tn
e. canvass in the fall of 1876. AS Coun
II sci to the Corporation he did good SCI
i vice to New 7 ork and saved the cit
n millions of dollars.
% There were at times nearly fou
n thousand suits pending in the court
n against the city, which gre'
a out of the frauds of til
m Tweed Ring. He held this office TO
"a seven years and has been twice real
" pointed. When he resigned his pos
# ton he had still two more years t,
,e serve. He is next to the youngest
i the new Cabinet Secretaries.
K LUCIUs Q. G. LAMAR
~ was born at Oxford, Putnam Count,
Ii Ga, September II, 1925. He receive
il his early education in his native tow
Is In 1915 he graduated at Emory Col
ct lege, Georgia. BE studied law at Ma
a con, Ca, and was admitted to the bs
II in 1847. In 1919 he moved to Oxfor(
r Miss, and was elected adjunct professo
g. Of mathematics in the Mississippi Stat
o. University, DR.. A. T. Bledsoe, edito
1T of the Southern Review, being tn
IS senior professor. He resigned in 185
d, and went to CoEington, Ga, where b
Of practiced law. In 1853 he was electe
ii to the Georgia Legislature, and tn
N next year returned to Mississippi an
as settled on plantation in La FaJett
r county. He was elected to the thirty
lie fifth and thirty-sixth Congresses an
as resigned in 1860. He entered tn
Z, Confederate army in 1861 as lieutt
he nant-colonel of the Nineteenth Mi
e I'll,