Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-04-02
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MORE SURPRISES.
THE PRESIDENTS FOREIGN MISSION AF-
POINTMENTS.

The President has sent to the Senate the
following nominations, and they have been
promptly confirmed:
Envoy extraordinary and minister plenl-
potentiary Of the United States, Edwin ).
Phelps of Vermont, to Great Britain Rob-
ert NJ. McLane, of Maryland, to France;
George H. Pendleton, of Ohio, to Germany !;
Henry r. Jackson, of Georgia, to Mexico;
Maccenas +. Benton, of Missouri.
Edwin J. Phelps, minister to England, IS
a prominent lawyer of Burlington Yer
mont He is about GO years of age and the
pOssessOr of a moderate fortune. He is
ex-President of the American bar associa-
ton, has practced before the supreme court
in Washington, and is highly esteemed as a
lawyer and man of culture. He has sew
eral times been the democratic candidate
for governor Of Vermont, but has never
held public office. For two years Fast he
delivered lectures on law to the graduating
class of Yale college. Mr.. Phelps is son
of ex-senator Phelps, of Vermont. Sena-
tor Edmunds was his legal preceptor. 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 Roots Jackson, nominated ss min
lister to Mexico, is native OF Georgia, and
is 81 years of age. He graduated a. Yale
college in 1899, and was shortly afterward
admitted to the bar. He was colonel of a
Georgia regiment in the Mexican war, and
for four successive years was judge of the
eastern circuit of Georgia. In 1858, ne was
sent to represent the United States at Vien-
ma, Austria, where he remained five years.
During the late civil war he was southern
brigadier-general, and had command on the
upper Potomac. Since the war Jackson has
practiced the profession Of law in Georgia.
He has Of late years held no public office.
He is man of independent fortune, and is
highly endorsed by prominent men of his
State. Jackson is the author of several
poems, "Tallulah" being among them.
Robert NJ. McLane, of Maryland, nomi-
Wilmington Del, in 1915. He was educa-
ted at st. Mary's college, Baltimore, and at
the college of Bourbon in Paris, France.
He was appointed by Gen. Jackson cadet
at West Point, and after graduating there
in 1887, served in the Florida war and
the northwest as lieutenant of artillery.
He resigned from the army in 1913, studied
law in Washington and removed to Balti-
more, where he began the practice OF law.
He was member of the Maryland Legls-
lature in 1915; was a member OF the 3Oth
and 3lst Congress; was appointed by Pres
dent Pierce in 1852 minister to Chira, and
Was dppOlHGtu NY L lCoiuCHV I'uCh"-H'ii No
minister to Mexico in 1853, but resigned in
1860. He was elected to the 46th and 47th
Congress and declined the nomination for
the 4Sth Congress. He was elected Govern
or of Maryland in 1868 for term Of four
years, beginning January, 1864.
Geo. Fl. Pendleton, Of Ohio, the new min
lister to Germany, was born at CINCINNATI,
Ohio, July 10, 1926, received an academic ed
ucation in the schools of Cincinnati, end af-
terward in Europe. Studied law, Wasadmit-
ted to the bar and has continued ever since
in the practice at Cincinnati. He was a
member of the Senate of the State of
Ohio in 1886; was representative
from Ohio in the 35th, seth, 37th and 3Sth
Congress; was a candidate for Vice-Presi-
dent on the ticket headed by George B. Nc
Clellan in 1864; was the Democratic candi-
date for Governor of Ohio in 1869; was
elected to the United States Senate as a
Democrat to succeed Stanly Matthews, Re-
publican, and took his seat March 18th, 1879.
His term expired March 3rd, 1885.
The appointments Of Phelps, McLane,
Pendleton and Jackson excite surprise, but
are received with general satisfaction. 1t
was considered certain that Pendleton
would go to England instead of Germany.
There is nothing concerning qualifications
or political record that can be objected to
in nithar Of tho men -