The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
TAFT'S CABINET MADE UP
 OF REPRESENTATIVE MEN

the state of Washington and was mem Der of the advisory committee during the last campaign.
 Jacob M. Dickinson.
 Jacob McGavock Dickinson, the new Secretary of War, Is the southern mem Der of President Taft's cabinet. A Mis- sissippian by birth, he is a citizen of Ten nessee and as a Cleveland democrat sup ported MT. Taft for the presidency Prob ably his most notable public service was as counsel for the United States In the Alaskan boundary case before the arbi- tration tribunal in London in 1903. He was an assistant attorney general of the Uni ted States during Clevelands administra- ton, and has been general counsel for the Illinois Central Railroad company for some years, spending most of his time In Chicago, where the general offices of that company are located Mr Dickinson Is oo years old, having been born in Co., lumbus, Miss, in 1851. He is a gradua te Of the University of Nashville, from which school he has a degree as master of arts. and he studied law at Columbia univer- sity, at the University of Leipzig and in Paris. He is president of the American Bar association, and belongs to the Chi cago club the Onwentsia and the .ro- quois clubs, all of Chicago. MT Dick lnson Is the owner of the famous Belle Meade stock farm in Nashville
 George von Lengerke Meyer
 George von Lengerke Meyer. who goes rom the Postmaster Generals office to the navy department, was brought into the cabinet in February, 1907, to succeed postmaster General Cortelyou. He was at that time ambassador to St Peters burg, to which post he had been trans lerfeo rom Rome. where he had served i've years as ambassador. MT. Me1er is a nStlVe of Boston, in which city he was porn in 1858. After graduating from Harvard he entered the employ of a com
 mission firm, and some years later be
 came member of the firm of Linder & Meyer, East India merchants, which had been established by his father He is an officer or director in many large mann 1actdiing and financial concerns, and has ai"ays been active in politics, having been a member of the Boston common ctuLcll, an alderman, a member of the state legislature, serving as speaker of the lower house for three consecutive years MT. Meyer was elected member or the republican national committee in 1853, and on McKinley's election he was made ambassador to Italy. He is mem
 per or the Athletic, the Somerset and St
 Botolph clubs of Boston, and among other business offices is president of the Ames i T~-rrtFN'.J Colony Trust company. and the Amoskeap Manutat turing company. Mir Meyer is a sportsman and an angler, and is known as a crack shot.
 George w. Wickersham.
 New York's representative in the new cabinet is George w. Wickersham who becomes attorney general Mir Wicker sham Is member of the law firm in
 which President Taft's brother. Henry W. Taft, is d partner, and he is known as an expert in railroad law. Although A resident of New York city, MT Wick crsham is native of Pennsylvania hay Ing been born in Pittsburg in 1S5S He first took civil engineering at Lehigh uni Versty, but later entered the law school or the University of Pennsylvania. from which he holds the degree of bachelor of laws. He immediately entered practice in Philadelphia, but later went to New York and associated himself with the firm of Chamberlain, Carter & Hornblower. year later he became managing clerk of the firm of Strong & Cadwalader of which President Tafts brother is a mem | Der, and eventually was taken into part nership.
 | MT. Wickersham Is counsel for a large 1 number of corporations, among them the ] Interborough railroad, and as attorney fof l the railroads in the famous Chicago Trac- | liOH case came lnlO cOnSlOeraDle public | prominence. He is fond of travel usually l spending a portion of the year abroad, | and is a devoted equestrian. He has a 1 country residence at Cedarhurst, L. l., and also a home in New York city. l Charles NageI.
 l Charles Nagel of St. Louis, the new l Secretary of Commerce and Labor, if better known among lawyers and educa- l tors than to the public at large, although
 he served as member of the Missouri house of representatives and is mem l Der of the republican national commit tee. He is native Westerner, having been born in Colorado county, Texas, ir l 1S49 He comes of professional ancestors l his father, Dr. Herman Nagel. being ont l of a family of four brothers of whom three are physicians and his materna
 grandfather and great-grandfather were