Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-10
THE new CABINET

THE new CABINET
Statesmen Who Will Be Taft's coun-
sellors.
Of great interest to the country at
this time is the Cabinet which is to
be President Taft's official family for
the present administration. The
following sketches of the men chosen
by the incoming president, are, taken
from recent article in the Philadel-
phia Record.
Secretary Of State.
Philander Chase Knox was born
at Brownsville Pa, in 1885. He
graduated at Mt. Union College,
Ohio, in 1872; was admitted to the
bar in 1875. From 1876 ,to;lS77 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
sennypacker to succeed the late NJ.
S. Quay IS United States senator
from Pennsylvania. He has been in
the Senate ever 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-
late for the United States senate
from Iillionois in 1894 but was de-
saated. He is president Of the Bu.
-eau Of Charities and Municipal Art
S a member of the executive COM
nittee Of the National Civic Fedora
ion anr. is vice-president Of the Am
,rican Civic Association.
Secretary Of War.
Jacob McGavoc Dickinson was
BORN at Columbus, Miss, in 1851,
md graduated from the University
# Nashville in 1871. He served sew
,ral times by special commission of
he Tennessee supreme court. From
1895 to 1897 he was assistant attor-
lev general of the United States. In
,olitcs he has generally been Demo-
rat. He will be appointed as from
Tennessee. He is president of the
American Bar Association. He
Weighs 270 podnds and is 6 feet 8
nches in height. He is wealthy. He
nd Mr.. Paft call each other "Bill'
md 'tj5akc."
Attorney General.
George w. Wickersham is native
# Pennsylvania. was born in Pitts
'urg in 1858. He graduated at the
University of PENNSYLVANIA. with the
legree of LII. B. in 1880. In Martin
lale's American Law Directory he is
.ated as every good" in legal ability
md every high" under the classif-
'ation of recommendations these
ire the highest and most laudable
'atinss contained in the directory.
dr Wiekersham has been particular.
y prominent in corporation law, and
n this respect resembles his two pre-.
lecessors Senator Knox and Sena-
Root.
Postmaster General.
Frank-IIarris Hitchcock: has been a
government official nearly ever since
le graduated from Harvard in 1891.
Ie was born in 1867. He held various
lerkships, bureau chieftainships, etc.
nd finally became assistant post
master general. He took charge Of
he campaign of George B. Cortel-
'ou for the presidential nomination,
ut when this boom was squelched
yas invited to become manager for
he Taft boom which he did.
Secretary of the Navy.
George Won Lengerke Meyer, now
postmaster general, was born in 1858,
1aduated from Harvard in 1879. He
5 very wealthy. He was speaker Of |
be house in Massachusetts, in 1894,
nd was appointed ambassador to
tally in 1000. In 1905 he was trans
erred to Russia, and in 1907 was re-
allied to become a member Of Presi-
ent Roosevelt's cabinet.
Secretary Of the Interior.
Richard Achilles Ballinger was
orn in Ohio in 1858, and after
in 1856 from Williams
Iollegc, Massachusetts, removed to
'eattle, Wash. He has written q
lumber of volumes upon the law,
eyed one term as a superior court
udge, one term as mayor of Seattle, |
nd has since 1907 been commissioner
f the general land Office.
Secretary of Agriculture.
James Wilson is Scotchman, and
therefore, the one man in the cabinet
Tho could not succeed to the presi-
ency. He was born in 1885, and
anne to the United States in 1852,
ettling in Connecticut, but went to