Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-03-14

cabinet Biographies IN 0sio6.
The new cabinet. composed Of the fol-
lowing gentlemen, was submitted to Il
senate last Tuesday, and confirmed v ..ts
out unnecessary delay:
JAMES GILLESPIE RI.AIN-
Secretary of state, was born 1s,.a,
ton county. Pa, Jan. 81, y al an " aS
from Washington coli V' f fo"e'
came professor of n ..Ss.e. - i ~ Mil.
tary institute in entnc sa' rs, ~ to
Augusta. Main At the '.cI;c;t.si I If the
Name Gni nom he had married in Ken
lucky ecame part owner of the Kenne-
pee yo,1rnal; edited the Portland Daily
A.ivertlser; assist' ID in organizing the
republican party m Maine: served in the
legislature from 1853 to 1851. as speaker
OF the mouse tb . last two years; elected
Representative in congress in 1852. and
re-electeu e" ch successive term until 1873;
speaker OF she national house from 1859
to !o.4, az ID defeated in 1879, the Demo
Gratis nav ing a majority of the house; an
unsucc' assf0l candidate in 1875 and 1880
Tor residential nomination.; appointed
u. .. Senator from Maine in 1875. after
war ds elected for a full term; resigned
tn senatorship in 1881 to become presi-
q eat Garfield's secretary Of state; resign
ed this position in December, 1881; de-
.fcated as the republican candidate fcr
the presidency in 1884.
WILLIAM WINDOW,
Secretary of the. treasury, was born in
Ohio in 1927; practiced law in his native
state- removed TO Minnesota in 1853; a
member of congress from 1853 to fS68;
appointed Z. S. senator in 1870 to fill Il
. vacancy, and elected the following year
for full term; re elected in 1877: re-
sigxed the censorship in 1881 to become
President Garkeid's secretary Of the
treasury; candidate for the senate in
1883, but was defeated by Sabin. While
Benjamin Harrison and Mr.. Window
served together as senators they sat near
each other and were good friends
JOHN WILCOX NOBLE,
} Secretary of the interior, was horn in
, Lancaster. Ohio. October 26. 1881, being
the eighth of nine children; passed his
early days in Columbus and Cincinnati;
studied year in Miami university, and
took the Junior and senior courses in
Yale college, graduating in 1854; studied
law with Henry Stanberry, who was af-
forwards attorney general of the United
!; States; settled in st. Louis and admitted
: to the bar in 1855; moved to KeOkuk,
excellent law practice; enlisted as pri-
vate at the breaking out of the war. but
, was promoted rapidly until he reached
the rank of brigadiPr general; entered
the law practice in St. Louis after the
, war; was appointed Z. S. district attOr-
ney for the eastern district of Missouri in
| 1867; is the senior member of the firm of
{ Noble s. Orrick.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TRACY,
Secretary of the navy, is native of Ito
ga county, n. Y, and about fifty nine
years of age; was raised on farm; stud
led law; admitted to the bar in 1854; three
| years later elected district attorney of his
native county; became member of the
\ New York Assembly; raised two regi-
ments in June. 1862. for the war, and
was given command of one of them, the
1O9th; rose to the rank of brigadier gen.
eral; appointed o. s. district attorney for
, the eastern district of New York, resign
, ing in 1872; one of the counsel in the
, TiltOn- Beecher suit in 1875.
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON MILLER,
Attorney general, is about fOrty-eight
years old, and was born in Oneida coun-
ty, n. v; entered Hamilton college at
the age of sixteen years, and graduated
z at twenty; taught school and studied law
practiced law at Fort Wayne, Ind, for
eight years; removed to Indianapolis in
1874 to enter into a law partnership with
General Harrison, and the two have been
. the closest of friends
REDFIELD PROCTOR,
Secretary of war, was chairman of the
Vermont delegation to the Chicago con-
|, ventlon in 1888, and worked hard for
Harrison; has been governor of Vermont;
lives at Proctor, town he founded few
, miles from Rutland; virtually controls
the marble output of his state, and man
, ages a large farm.
JOHN wANAMAKER,
Postmaster general, is native of Phila-
delphia county, Pa, and fifty -one years
of age. He has grown wealthy by run
ming mammoth retail mercantile bust
! ness, and advertising extensively. He
: was one of the most active republicans
+ in the late presidential campaign.
JEREMIAH RUSK,
! Secretary of agriculture, was born in
, Morgan county, Ohio, June 18th. 1880,
! and removed to Vernon county, Wis, in
1858; held several county offices; COM
, missiOned major of the 25th Wisconsin
5 infantry in July. 1862, and afterwards
+ promoted colonel; brevetted brigadier
+ general for bravery ut the battle of Sal
1 kahatchie: elected comptroller of Wis
consin in 1866 and 1858: served in con
gress six years; wasgOvernOr three terms;
is practical farmer. and the farmer
|, friend
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