Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-04-09
short raphical Sketches of the NOmi-
nees to Foreign Missions.
HE MINISTER TO RUSSIA

THE MINISTER TO RUSSIA.
Washington, March 30.-Alexander K.
Lawson is a prominent lawyer at Savan-
nah. He was educated at West Point,
served in the army number of years
and resigned to study law at Savannah,
and engaged in the practice of his pro-
fession there.
When the war broke out he entered
the Confederate service as a brigadier
general, and subsequently became quar-
ter master general of the Confederacy.
At the close of the war he returned to
his practice at Savannah and soon after
wards was appointed attorney for the
Central Railroad and Banking company
of Georgia.
He is described rs lawyer Of distinc-
ton, and q gentleman of quiet and alta
BILE manner, the possessOr of considera-
BILE wealth and about sixty years of age
MINISTER TO ITALY.
A. NJ. Kelly, nominated Minister to
Italy, is lawyer in successful practice at
Richmond, Va. He has been Mayor of
that place, and was for several years
chairman of the Democratic Funders'
Committee, taking an active and promi-
nent part in the contest against the Re-
of the counsel for the Virginia bond
holders in their prolonged litigation.
MINISTER 70 THE NETHERLANDS.
Isaac Bell, Jr., nominated for Minister
to the Netherlands, is wealthy citizen
of Newport, X. l., and a prominent
Democrat, and has several times been a
Democratic candidate for Governor, and
he is brother-in-law of James Gordon
Bennett. He was a Democratic candi-
date for the United States Senate at the
last Senatorial election.
THE CONSUL TO MANCHESTER.
Evans H. Howell, of Georgia, nomi-
mated for Consul at Manchester, is one
of the editors and proprietors of the
of high standing.
THE MINISTER TO PORTUGAL.
Edward Parker Curtis Lewis, nominee
for the mission to Portugal, is a resident
of Hoboken, n. j. He is said to be dis
family related to Secretary Bayard, and
has been member of the Legislature, a
Presidential elector and a member of
the State Democratic Committee.
THE MINISTER TO SWEDEN.
Rufus Magee, OF Indiana, nominated
for Minister to Sweden and Norway, is
resident of Logansport, lawyer, and
State Senator, man of local prominence
as an active politician, and an especial
friend of ex-senator Mcdonald, whom
he accompanied recently to this city.
THE MINISTER TO DENMARK.
Rasmus b. Anderson, of Wisconsin,
nominated as Minister resident to Den
mark, is Scandinavian scholar and is
the author of a number of books upon
Scandinavian folk lore and mythology.
He is professor in Wisconsin univer-
sity, and we'll known among literary
men.
Mr.. Anderson is man of wide in
fluence among the Scandinavians in the
United States and has always taken a
deep interest in the promotion of Sean
dinavian immigration to this country.
The nomination is generally regarded as
an extremely good one.
THE CONSUL GENERAL TO LONDON.
ThOs. nj. Waller, nominated for Consul
General to London, is well known as ex-
Governor of Connecticut.
THE CONSUL GENERAL TO BERLIN.
Frederick Rains, of Maryland, the
nominee for the Berlin Consul General
ship, is an editor of Baltimore, and cor
respondent of German Democratic pa
per.
THE CONSUL GENERAL TO VIENNA.
Edmund Jussen, of Illinois, nOmi-
mated for Consul General to Vienna, is
the leading member of prominent firm
of German Americans in Chicago. He
has been somewhat prominent in poll
tics in his State.
THE CONSUL TO ATHENS
A. Halter Gross, of Pennsylvania, the
nominee for Consul to Athens, is son
of the eminent surgeon. He has been
locally prominent in Philadelphia as
Democrat, and was recently member
of the City Council.
MINISTER TO THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
Geo. w. Merrill, of Nevada, nominated
for resident Minister to the Hawaiian
Islands, is lawyer by profession, but is
now private Secretary to Senator Fair
He is well known here and generally es-
teemed.
THE MINISTER TO BRAZIL.
Thos. j. Jarvis has been nominated
Minister to Brazil. He served in the
Confederate army, and was Governor of
North Carolina for six years.