The Washington herald., 1907-05-05

\ married her and settled In west virginia,
to be near his father-in-law. After leeY-
ing the Cabinet in 1898 he went back to
his West Virginia mines and railroads
and was made Senator In 1885
At sixty-three Robert Todd Lincoln. ap-
pointed Secretary Of War by Garfield.
sixteen years after Abraham Lincoln was
| lassassinated, is living in Chicago. He
never has been much in politics, but, as
the son Of bis father. be has been mem
toned several times for the Presidency
with more or less sincerity Upon leaving
the Cabinet IN 1885. he returned to Chi
cago. where he had gathered a big law
practice. after graduating from Harvard
| College and Law School. and built up
his practice anew, his speciality being real
estate He became counsel for the Pull
man Company early ia It's history. and on
/ the death OF Pullman. was made its pres
ident. He is a rich man in The modern
sense Of the term. He was Minister 10
England under Harrison.
Elihu Root. who preceded Taft in the
/ War Department, can hardly be termed
an "ex-secretary' till after he finally
leaves the Cabinet.
The Nations Financial Men.
! Leslie Mortimer Shaw. just out of the
/ Treasury Department. at hfty-eight. and
now at the head Of a New York Trust
/ Company. is the youngest of the Treas
ury ex-Secretaries. Charles Stebbins
Fairchnd. who had the portfolio during
/ a part Of Cleveland's first term, is next
/ youngest, being sixty-fve. He was an
! A La -a AZ
/ general Of his State before he entered
the Cabinet. but after leaving it made
New York his headquarters. where. for
years, he was president Of a big trust
company. though nov retired. de Is a
native Of New York State and a Harvard
man.
/ Lyman Judson Gage, who held the port
/ folio under Mckinley, and was succeeded
under Roosevelt by Shaw. also became
president OF a big New York trust COM
pany after leaving the Cabinet in 1902.
! He Is a native of New York State. self
educated, and was a Chicago bank pres
ident before becoming a Cabinet minis
/ ter He also was president Of the Chiea-
go Worlds Fair. At seventy-one he is
retired and lives in California much Of
/ the time.
! Cleveland's Treasury head during his
! second term. John Griffin Carlisle, now
/ seventy-one, has been pracucing law sue
/ cessfully in New York ever since he re-
/ tired from the Cabinet, ten years ago.
/ He has been little in the public eye since
/ leaving Washington. He is not a college
man. He entered Congress in 1S77 and
! H-rA hs.sr ~
! the lower one for six years. II was Of
him that Mckinley once said: THAT man
never had a cloudy thought
The Interior Portfolio.
J Cornelius Newton Bliss and Ethan AL
/ lea Hitchcock. both chosen by Mckinley
10 hold the portfolio of the Interior:
/ Hitchcock's service. just concluded. reach
1 ing into Roosevelt's ADMINISTRATION, are
I both rich men Bliss is seventy -four:
! Hitchcock. seventy-one- Neither is col
I lege bred. Both are merchants Of the
old school Called into public life with
out expecting it by Mckinley, Hitchcock
/ served first as Minister and then as Am
I bassador 20 Russia, becoming Secretary
/ Ct the Interior when Bliss stepped out
/ No one can yet have forgotten the re-
forms Of Hitcheoek's regime.
/ Born in New England, Bliss went 10
/ New Orleans as a boy. got back North
and went 10 work in Boston IN 1866. bat
/ finally gravitated to New York. where he
+ has been a noteworthy factor in the busi-
/ ness world for more than thirty years
I He was treasurer of the Republican Ma
tional Committee IN the last four cam
paigns and president of the American
I Protective Tariff League from its forma-
tion. in lsS. until two or three years
/ ago Bliss was never so bored in his
I life as when in the Cabinet.
John Wilcox Noble. who had the in
terror portfolio under Harrison. and
/ David Rowland Francis, who had it dur
ing the latter part of Cleveland's second
administration. are both residents OF ST
Louis Noble is now seventy-five: he was
a lawyer in the metropolis Of the mid
Mississippi Valley when called TO the
Cabinet and he has been practcing there
ever since ne left it. He is an Ohi0an by
birth, was 1ivig AT KeOlIuk. Iowa. when
the civil war broke out went TO the front
and rose 10 the rank Of brevet brigadier
general
FraHcis was born Kentuckian. He
studied at the Washington University,
established himself as a commission mer-
chant, and served as mayor of St Louis
and governor of Missouri before entering
the Cabinet. His entire career has been
remarkably successful. but he is best
known because he was president of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1901.
This enterprise, in fact, made him more
or less famous in every civilized land He
Is ffty-six, rich, and has been talked of
a good deal in the past as a Democratic
Presidential possibility.
Hoke Smith, who held the Interior Sec
retaryship three OF the four years Of
.C1eveland's second term, returned to At
lanta on leaving the Cabinet and re-
sumed his law practice. It and the news
paper which he took on a debt,some years
ago have brought him a substantial for
tune. and he will not need his salary as
governor Of Georgia, to which office he
was chosen at the last State election.
He gets his odd Christian name from his
mothers family. He is fifty-one, and is
not a college man.
William Freeman Villas. Secretary of
the Interior during the latter half of
Cleevlands first term, who had previous
ly served as Postmaster General. is liv-
ing at Madison, Wis, where he practiced
law before his incursion into Cabinetland.
He is still praetieing. He Is sixty-seven
a native Of Vermont. and graduate of
Wisconsin University. He served in the
civil war, rose TO be lieutenant colonel.
and was United States Senator from 1871
TO 1881 Il, is rich
Henry N. Teller Arthur.s Secretarv OF