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ght In favor Of the selection Of Mr.

bright in favor Of the selection Of Mr..
Baker.
The appointment Of Mr. Beach to succeed
Ashley NJ. Gould as United States attorney
was made November 2S 1902. The fact
that he ha6 been appointed to a responsible
position under the Department of Justice
a short time before gave rise to the suppo-
sitiOn that he had withdrawn from the con-
test for the appointment as United States
attorney.
Mr.. Beach was born at Sandy Spring,
Md, September 20, 1861. The greater por-
ton of his younger days We're spent in
Alexandria, Va. He is son of the late
Ferguson Beach, a prominent Virginia
lawyer, who is particularly well remem-
bered by reason of his connection with the
Lee heirs to recover possession of the Ar
lngton estate After graduating from the
Episcopal High School, near Alexandria, Mr..
Beach entered Yale University. He at
tanned note as a Greek scholar and grad
uated from Yale at the age of nineteen
years with distinguished honors, being the
youngest member of the class of 1882 Mr..
Beach was admitted to the bar of Virginia
In 1884 and to that Of the District of Co
lumbia in 1856, having received his degree
from the University Of Virginia.
Mr.. Beach was highly indorsed for the
position of United States attorney by many
people in Virginia and elsewhere. as well as
by several senators, lawyers, business men,
bankers and other citizens, including
large representation of local lawyers. Since
he entered upon his duties as United States
attorney ne mas attained very WlUe
nence by reason of his connection with the
indicting and further prosecuting of the
individuals accused of crime in connection
with the post Office Irregularities.
Mr.. Bakers Career.
Daniel William Baker, who last evening
was regarded as being in the lead in the
quiet race for appointment as Mr.. Beach's
successor, is one Of the most prominent of
the younger members of the local bar. He
owns home and a large farm in Mont
gomery county, Nd, and has been actively
identified with the politics of the state as
a republican. Mr.. Baker graduated from
the law department of Georgetown Uni
versity in the class Of 1898. He is a men,
ber of the law faculty of that institution,
being instructor In several important
branches. Mr.. Baker succeeded the late
Judge jeremiah Wilson in the chair of real
estate. Mr. Baker is a member OF the COM
mittee having charge of the examination
of the candidates for admission to the bar
For several years he held Office as assis-
tant United States attorney for the Dis
trict of Columbia, as stated, when Mr..
Henry E. Davis was at the head of the
office. As assistant United States attorney
Mr.. Baker participated, among Others in
the preparation of the pool room gaming
and sugar trust cases. He became
partner in the law firm of Lambert & Baker
in 1899.
Mr.. Baker was born at Calvert College,
New Windsor, Carroll county, Md, October
A. 1867. His father Andrew Hull
Baker, distinguished teacher and mathe-
matician, who founded Calvert College and
was afterward professor of mathematics
at Mount st. Mary's College, Emetts-
burg, Nd where D. w: Baker akt1c was as
1897 conferred upon D. w. Baker the de-
gree of A. NJ. honoris causa.