The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-03-11
THE new CABINET
Statesmen Who Will Be Taft's Coun-
sellors.

tnlS 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, arc taken
from recent article in the Philadrl-
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 1873. 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
Pennypackcr to succeed the late NJ.
5. Quay as United States senator
From Pennsylvania. He has been in
the Senate ever since.
Secretary of the Treasury.
Franklin MacVcagh. a brother of
Wayne MacVeagh. who was a men,
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 Bu-
reau of Charities and Municipal Art
is member of the executive COM
mlttee of the National Civic Fedora
ton and is vice-president of the Am
erican Civic Association.
Secretary of War.
jacob McGavoc Dickinson was
born at Columbus, Miss, in 1851,
and graduated from the University
OF Nashville in 1871. He served sew
eral times by special commission of
the Tennessee supreme court. From
1898 to 1897 e was assistant attor-
ney general of the United States. In
politics he has generally been Demo-
crat. He will be appointed as from
Tennessee. He is president of the
American Bar Association. He
weighs 210 pounds and is 6 feet 3
inches i'll height. He is wealthy. He
and Mr. Taft call each other ''BiH"
and "Jake.'
Attorney General.
George W. Wickersham is a native
of Pennsylvania. was born in Pitts
burg in 1855. He graduated at the
University of Pennsylvania. with the
degree of LII. B. in 1880. In Martif-
dale 5 American Law Directory he is
rated as every good" in legal ability
and every 'gh" under the classif.
cation of recommendations
are the highest and most laudable
ratings contaired in the directory.
Mr.. Wickersham has been particular
~ prominent in corporation law. and
IN this respect resembles his two pre-
decesSors-Senator Knox and Sena-
tor-elect Root.
Postmaster General.
Frank Harris Hitchcock has been a
government official nearly ever since
he graduated from Harvard in 1891.
lie was born in 1867. He held various
clerkships, bureau chieftainships, etc.
and finally became assistant post
master general. He took charge of
the campaign of George B. Cortel-
You for the presidential nomination.
but when this boom was squelched
was invited to become manager for
the Taft boom which he did.
Secretary of the Navy.
George Won Lengerke Meyer, now
postmaster general, was born in 1853,
graduated from Harvard in 1879. He
is very wealthy. He vas speaker of
the house in Massachusetts in 1894.
and was appointed ambassador to
Italy in 1900. In 1905 he was trans
ferred to Russia, and liz 1867 was re-
called to become a member of Presi-
dent Roosevelt cabinet.
Secretary Of the Interior.
Richard Achilles Ballinger was
born in Ohio in 1853, and after
graduating in 1886 from Williams
College, Massachusetts, removed to
Seattle, Wash. He has written
number of volumes upon the law,
seved one term as a superior court
judge, one term as mayor of Seattle,
and has since 1907 been commissioner
OF the general land Office.
Secretary of Agriculture.
James Wilson is a Scotchman, and
therefore the one man in the cabinet
who could not succeed to the presi-
dency. He was born in 1885, and
came to the United States in 1852,
settling in Connecticut, but went TO