The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-11
THE new CABINET
Statesmen Who Will Be Taft's Coun-
sellers.

AASs OA@S
Ohio, in 1872; was admitted to the
bar in 1875. From 1876 to 1877 he
was assistant United States district
attorney. In 1901 he was appointed
Attorney General of the United
States by President Mckinley and
retained the post under Presidents
Mckinley and Roosevelt until 1904,
when he was appointed by Governor
Pennypacker to succeed the late M
S. Quay as United States senator
from Pennsylvania. He has been in
the Senate vel since.
Secretary of the Treasury.
Franklin MacVeagh, a brother OF
Wayne MacVeagh, who was a mem
Der of the Garfield cabinet, was born
in. Chester county, Pennsylvania, and
graduated in 1862 from Yale and in
1864 from the Columbia Law School
| On account of ill-health gave up the
profession and went to Chicago
where he embarked in mercantile
pursuits. He was Democratic condi
date for the United States senate
from Iillionois in 1894 but was de
feated. He is president of the Blu
reau of Charities and Municipal Ar
is o member of the executive com
mittee of the National Civic Fedora
ton and is v~ice-president of the Am
erican Civic Association.
Secretary Of War.
Jacob McGavoc Dickinson wa
born at Columbus, Miss, in 1851
and graduated from the Universit,
of Nashville in 1871. He served sew
eral times by special commission o
the Tennessee supreme court. From
1895 to 1897 he was assistant attor
ney general of the United States. L
politics he has generally been a Demo
crat. He will be appointed as fror
Tennessee. He Is president of tn
American Bar Association. II
weighs 270 pounds and is 6 feet
inches in height. He is wealthy. II
and Mr.. Taft call each other "Bill
and "Jake."
Attorney General.
George W. Wickersham is a nativ
of Pennsylvania. was born in Pitt:
burg in 1858. He graduated at til
University of Pennsylvania, with til
degree of Ii. B. in 1850. In Martin
dale's American Law Directory he
rated as every good" in legal abilit
and every high" under the classit
catiCn of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
are the highest and most laudab.
~ratings contained in the director
Mr.. Wickersham has been particula
ly prominent in corporation law, an
in this respect resembles his two pr,
| decessors-Senator Knox and Sen;
tor-elect Root.
Postmaster General.
Frank Harris Hitchcock has been
government official nearly ever sim
!, he graduated from Harvard in 1S9
: He was born in 1867. He held warrior
, c~lerkships, bureau chieftainships, eft
, and finally became ass&'ant pos
> master general. He took charge
: the campaign of George B. Corte
= YOU for the presidential nominatio
but when this boom was squelcht
was invited to become manager f,
the Taft boom which he did.
I Secretary of the Navy.
George Won Lengerke Meyer, nc
postmaster general, was born in 195
graduated from Harvard in 1879. +
{ is very wealthy. He was speaker
= the house in Massachusetts in 1SG
;. and was appointed ambassador
Italy in 1900. In 1905 he was trar
ferred to Russia, and in 1907 was
h called to become a member of Pre-
y dent Roosevelt s cabinet.
t Secretary Of the Interior.
d Richard Achilles Ballinger W
/ born in Ohio in 1853, and aft
% graduating in 1886 from Willial
4 College, Massachusetts, removed
1t Seattle, Wash. He has written
IS number of volumes upon the la
er seved one term as a superior COZ
d tadge, one term as mayor of Seat
t and has since 1907 been commission
re of the general land Office.
Secretary of Agriculture.
James Wilson is a Scotchman. a
therefore the one nan in the cabil
who could not succeed to the pre-
nj dehcy. He was born in 1885, a
IN came to the United States in IS
n settling in Connecticut, but went
Iowa, where he engaged in farmi
IL He has been secretary of agricult,
since 1897 and his appointment
r. the Taft cabinet will give him a r
of ord unparalleled in cabinet service
Secretary of Commerce and Lab
DC Charles Nagel, of St. Louis, is
native of Texas and has earned
: fortune in the practice of law.
legal practice has been largely
od corporations. Mr.. Nagle is extreI
nd " tall and slender, thin-faced. bro
10 hair and mustache mixed with 81
AZ He was born in 1S49. He did
Mt receive a college education, but So
one year in the University of Ber
NM where he studied Roman law, Pc
elf cal economy, etc. After study
nd abroad he returned to St. Louis
a 1873 and served as a member of
a Missouri legislature and as presto
Of the st. Louis city council.
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