Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-03-05
Frank n, Hitchcock.

Frank n. Hitchcock.
Although the younges, member OF
the new Cabinet. Frank H. Hitchcock
Mr.. Taft's Postmaster General. is
probably better known TO the general
public than any CT his colleagues by
reason of the prcminenc" he obtain
ed as chairman Of tn" h, Dubilcan
National Committee in the recent
campaign. Mr.. Hitchcock is only
forty-two years Of~age. and since he
left school has been in the employ
OF the government. He is Il native
tf Ohio but received hi. education
in Massachusetts,. to which state his
parents removed Will" he was quite
young. Graduating from Harvard IN
1891 he obtained a clerkship In the
Department OF Agriculture. Later
Secretary Wilson made him chief or
the Division of Foreign Markets. and
when the Department of Commence
and Labor was organized he was made
IFS first chief clerk. In Mr.. Rcose-
velt's first campaign he was assist
ant secretary to the Republican Ma
tionaI Committee, and was later ap'
pointed first Assistant Postmaster
General. He resigned that position
when the Taft campaign was opened
to take charge Of Mr.. Tatt's interests.
Subsequently he was elected chair
man OF the Republican National Com.
mittee, which post he still holds.
During his first years as govern
ment clerk in Washington Mr.. Hitch
cock found time to take a law course
at Columbian University. and on
graduation was admitted to the bar
in the District of COLUMBIA. and three
years later was admitted to practice
before the Supreme Court Of the
United States. Among other asso-
i Citations he Is a member Of the Ameri.
can Economic Association. the Amer
lean Statistical Association and the
American Association for the Ad'
vancement of Science. Mr.. Hitch
cock is a batchelOr.
James Wilson.
If Secretary Wilson continues u
hold the agricultural portfolio until
next November. he will, have broken
the record for continuous cabinet SET
vice which Is now held by Albert
Gallatin, cnce Secretary Of the Treas.
ury. who served Twelve years. eight
months and twenty-five days. Secre'
tary Wilson was appointed at the
outset o. the Mckinley administra
| ton. He was bern in Ayrshire. Scot
! land In 1885. and at the age of ser'
| enteen was brought to this country
| by his parents. He was educated In
| the public schools or Iowa and II
iowa College. He engaged in farm
| ing and entering state politics. was
| q member of the 18th. 18th and 1ith
| assemblies Of Iowa. being elected
speaker Of the assembly in his last
term. He served three terms In Con
rrcss. In the 18th Congress his seat
was contested and the opponents CT
General Grant, who was then near
ing his end at Mount McGFesor. used
the seating contest for . filibuste'
to defeat the Grant retirement bill
Mr. Wilson saved the measure by re
signing on the stipulation that the
Grant bill should be immediatei!
PASSED.
| Franklin MeveaSh.
Franklin McVeagh. merchant. whf
will be the next Secretary Of the
Treasury. was born on q farm neal
Phoenixvilie. Chester County. Penn
sysvania. He was graduated from
Yale as b. A.. in 1862. and from Go
lumbia Law School. New York. II
1861. ard began practice with hi
brother Wayne McEeagh. but M
! health failing, he abandoned Law an'
wen, West. Shortly after he estab
Ished in Chicago the wholesale gro
cerv house Of Franklin McVeagh an
Company. which for many years ha'
been one OF IN" largest IN the cou''
try and from which IL is re2ortet
he has only recently resigned. III
10 aiso q director C. the Commercis
| National Bank. and other Chicag'
corporations. =.
4 Mr. Macvesgh is distinguished u
Chicago not only a. a most successfu
merchant. but especially for his acti''
work in behalf Of civic progress ant
reform. He became president CT tn
Citizens Association o. Chicago u
1874. and continued 10 hold the ono;
several years aftcrrard, making
the instrument for many importsn
poii,tcsl reforms At the head Of IN
Bureau II Charities he added sreat'
N the effectiveness Of that organizs
,tou. and as chairman Of the Munic
pai Art League and otherwise he m
! been a faithful worker for uhe bear
;ifYins of Chicago. by extension q
/! ,bc boulevard system and in man
:. other ways. He has also taken a
active part in the work OF the ~