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and was recommended for the office by
Senators Cameron and Quay and others.
j. w. MASON,

and was recommended for the office by
Senators Cameron and Quay and others.
j. w. MASON,
who was to-day nominated as commits
sioner of internal revenue, is resident
Of Grafton, w. Va, and lawyer by
profession. He served in the Union
army during the war and has since de-
voted himself to the practice of law.
He has been an active politician for
many years and is a member of the Re-
publican national committee. In 1882
he was candidate for congress from
the Second district. and was defeated
by only ten votes. He was also the Re-
publican candidate for judge of the SUI
preme court at the last election. He is
now in Washington and expects
to take possession OF his new office
Thursday morning.
W.BUDD DEACON,
who is nominated for the marshalship of
New Jersey, held that Office once be-
fore, under President Arthur. He lives
at Mount Holly, and is at present a
member of the state senate.
WILLIAM WIDGERY THOMAS, JR.,
who was nominated for minister of the
United States to Sweden and Norway,
is native of Maine, and direct de-
scendant of George Cleeve, who founded
the city of Portland in 1852. Mr.. Thomas
was graduated from Bowdoin college in
his classmates. President Lincoln soon
afterwards sent him abroad, and he
served as vice consul general at
Constantinople and consul at Gotten
burg, Sweden. He received the thanks
of the king of Sweden for an histor-
ical novel, 1.-The Last Athenian."
which he translated from Swedish into
English. He returned to this country
and began the practice of law, but was
in 1870 sent abroad by the state of
Maine for the purpose of recruiting a
Swedish colony TO settle upon her
borders. MIR. Thomas brought back
fifty SwedeS. who founded the colony
of New Sweden in Northern Maine.
This colony has. now grown to nearly
1000 persons. Mr. Thomas has been a
member of both branches of the Maine
state legislature. In 1883 he was ap-
pointed minister to Sweden and Nor
way, and was the first minister of any
power to address the king of Sweden in
an official address in the Swedish Ian
guage. He was selected by the Swedes
in America as their orator at the
celebration which took place last
September in Minneapolis IN COM
memoratiou of the 25Oth anniversary of
the landing of the first Swedish colony
in America. His wife is the daughter
has always been Republican, and in
the political canvass resulting in Gen.
Harrison's election he rendered valu-
able service to the party as Swedish
stump speaker.
JAMES N. TYNER,
who was to-day appointed assistant
attorney general for the poStOffice de-
partment, was born in BroOkville, Ind,
in 1926, ana has been in public life for
more than twenty years. After being
graduated from the Brookville academy
he was associated with his father in
business for eight years. He then
studied law and afterwards entered
upon the practice of his profession. He
wasa presidential lector in 1860 and dur
ing the war was special agent of the
poStoffice department. He was men,
Der of congress from 1869 to 1875. Pres
ident Grant appointed him second as
SiStant postmaster general, and upon
the resignation of Marshall Jewell he
became postmaster general. serving as
such until the end of Grants ADM MIS-
tration, March 4, 1877. In April of that
year he was appointed first assistant
postmaster general, and held the office
until 1881, when he resigned. The
pOSlIlOu touuelSu to-udy Was ClliISly
unsolicited by Mr.. Tyner. He was
Gen. Wanamaker and MIR. Clarkson, be-
cause of his long and familiar acquain-
lance with the postal business of the
country.
BRAD D. SLAUGHTER,
nominated for United States marshal
of Nebraska, has been for more than
fourteen years past clerk to the Ne
braska legislature. He is an active
worker in support of the Republican
party, and has been for some time past
secretary of the State Republican
League of Nebraska.
SMITH A. WHITFIELD,
the nominee for second assistant post
master-general is a well known Ohio
Republican about forty-five years of
age. In his early life he was book
keeper and he left this pursuit to be-
come gauger in the internal revenue
service. He then became a special
agent of the internal revenue service.
Subsequently he was appointed assist
ant postmaster at Cincinnati and then
postmaster, which office he held five
years. During his service as postmas-
ter, the Cincinnati postOf11ce became
known as a model institution and was
noted for the efficient manner in which
III was COuuuCtCus MI. w liituClu IT,
signed his place as postmaster to be-
come member Of the Cincinnati board
of public Improvement, which has the
disbursement of about 100000 annu-
ally. He resigned that office to accept
the one to which he was to-day nOmi-
mated.
ABRAHAM D. HAZEN,
nominated to be third assistant post
master general, held that office for some
years prior to the spring of 1887, when
he was superseded by Mr.. Harris, who
was Democrat. MIR. HaZen is a Penn
sylvanian, who, after graduating from
Lafayette college, entered the postoffice
department as 81 200 clerk. He rose
through the various grades to the place
of chief of the division of stamps and
supplies. In 1877 he was appointed
third assistant postmaster general, and
in this capacity he served with ability
and efficiency for ten years. When
President Cleveland came into office
Mr.. Hazen. although Republican, was
retained for two years, because of his
knowledge of the business that passed
through his hands. The third assistant
postmaster general has charge of all
matters relating to the finances of the
postal service and letting of contracts
involving the expenditure of large
amounts of money. Mr.. Hazen did not
seek the office nor was he urged for it
by his friends. The tender of it came
to him entirely unsolicited, and he was
urged to accept the Office by Postmaster
General Wanamaker and Mr.. Clarkson,
who desired Mr.. HaZen's assistance be-
cause of his Well-knOWn ability to dis