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have been more different incumbents of

have been more different incumbents OF
this than Of any other Cabinet Office, and
those serving al interim include GRAHAM
Of Virginia, under MONROE, md GRANT
and THOMAS, army officers, under JOHN
SON, while ScHoFIBLD and SHERMAN,
rs army officers, also served briefly
under Presidents JOHNSON and GRANT,
respectively. Outside of these five,
New York and Massachusetts have each
furnished six incumbents, Ohio four, in
Guiding STANTON, the great war Secretary;
Pennsylvania and Virginia. four; Geor-
gia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Illinois, and Iowa. two each; Maryland,
Connecticut, Missouri, Louisiana. Missis-
sippi, Minnesota, Vermont, and West Vir-
ginia one each.
New York, with the appointment Of Mr..
BLISS, for the first time furnishes n Sccre-
tary Of the Interior. 1t Is not quite half n
century since the Office was created, and In
this time Missouri and Ohio have each pro-
vidcd three different men for 1t Michigan,
Iowa, Indiana and Mississippi, two; Mary.
land, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Illinois, Col.
orado, Wisconsin, and Georgia, one each.
California, under President MCKINLEY,
gets the first Cabinet appointment of any
kind she has ever had. She begins with the
Office Of Acknowledgement, for which Penn
s~ylvania has furnished seven different in
cumbents, including one dd interim; Massa-
chusctts, six; Maryland, five Virginia and
Ohio, each four; Kentucky, three; Georgia,
two; Delaware, Tennessee, South Carolina,
Maine, Connecticut, Missouri, Oregon, Ar.
kansas, and Indiana, one each.
Iowa supplies for the first time a Secre-
tary of Agriculture. Missouri, Wisconsin,
and Nebraska furnished the other three.
JAMES A. GARY becomes Maryland's third
Postmaster.General For many years the
Postmaster-General was not considered n
Cabinet officer. However, reckoning from
the beginning, in 1880, we find Kentucky,
Connecticut, New York, and Tennessee fur.
nishing each four different incumbents ;
Wisconsin, Ohio, and now Maryland, three ;
Indiana, Massachusetts,, and Pennsylvania,
two; Georgia, Vermont, Maine, Virginia,
Michigan, Iowa, and West Virginia, one
each.
Massachusetts, had the first Secretary Of
the Navy, in 1908, and has now furnished
five others, Mr.. LONG being the sixth in
all. The seacoast States have always sup.
piled the Secretaries Of this Navy, except
under HAYES, who brought forward THoMP.
son of Indiana, sometimes known as the
Ancient Mariner, and also his successor,
GoFF Of West Virginia. Virginia has fur
nished four different Secretaries; North
Carolina, and New York, also four; New
Jersey aud Maryland. three each Pennsy!-
vania, Connecticut, and New Hampshire.
two each Louisiana, South Carolina, and
Alabama, one each.
1t will be seen that California is the only
State that now secures for the first time a
representation in the Cabinet; but OF
the original thirteen States, Rhode Island
has not yet been represented there at
all, nor rave Florida and Texas, which
were admitted n little more than half
a century ago. Most OF the States
which have entered since 1860 nave not yet
furnished Cabinet officers, Kansas, Nevada,
the. Dakotas, Montana, Washington, Idaho,
Wyoming, and Utah being in this list.
Massachusetts, leads off, IL we do not err,
with the highest number Of aggregate
Cabinet appointments. including reappoint.
ments, while New York Is n very close SEQ
ond, and Pennsylvania third.