Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-20
JOHN B. j CKS0N
IS NOMINATED FOR
CUBA BY PRESIDENT
Diplomat, Native of Newark, Is
Picked to Take Place of
E. V. Morgan.

President Taft sent to the United
States Senate today list of diplomatic
nominations. among them that of John
B. Jackson, of Newark, now minister
to Persia, to be minister to Cuba, in
place of Edwin V. Morgan, OF New
York, who retires Mr.. jackson has
served more years continuously in the
American diplomatic service than any
man in it. His nomination Tor the Gu
ban mission is in ACCORDANCE with the
policy outlined by President Taft and
secretary Knox, of retaining IN the
service men OF experience and special
training.
John B. Jackson was born in Newark
forty-seyen years ago. He was. edu-
Gated at the Newark Academy, and
while preparing to take the examina-
tion Tor admission to Princeton Uni
versity he competed for appointment
as naval cadet at the Annapolis Acad-
eny.a He won the appointment against
ten competitors, and he served under
Admiral Baldwin In the Mediterranean
| squadron for three years. He then re-
signed, studied law in New York, was
admitted to the bar and married a
daughter of Matthew Baird, founder of
the Baltimore Locomotive Works.
While touring Europe in 1888 Mr..
Jackson was appointed second secre-
| tary of the American legation at Berlin
by President Harrison, and served there
under the late William Walter Phelps.
OF New Jersey. When the late General
Theodore Runyon, of Newark, was
made the first American ambassador to
Germany, President Cleveland pro-
NOTED Mr.. jackson to first secretary of
| the embassy. He was retained in that
position under Ambassadors Uhle and
| Andrew d. White. President Mckinley
! appointed him minister to Chill in 1897,
| but an exchange was made, and he
went as minister to Greece, which in
| cluded also Servia, Roumaria and Bull
garia. President Roosevelt made him
the first American minister resident to
Montenegro, and he is now minister to
| Persia.
| Mr.. Jackson got his first commission
| in the United States service from
President Hayes. and he has been i'll
| the diplomatic service under every
President since. He speaks, reads ana
writes French. German, italian and
Spanish has some knowledge of mod
ern Greek and a little of the Persian
| language. His father, the late f. VOL
| colt Jackson. was president of the Uni
ted Railroads and Canal Company of
New Jersey. and he was also resident
manager of. the Pennsylvania railroad
when he died in 1904
| Minister Jackson's brothers are Philip
N, William F., the Rev. Frederick W.,
of Bloomfield Theological Seminary;
| ~ To alyc
sisters are Miss Elizabeth W. Jackson,
Mrs Nelson Abeel and Mrs. Lewis
| Stewart, all of Newark.
| Mr. Jackson, who has been in this
country on visit, is now on his way
| to Europe, so he will probably not
know of the honor President Taft has
conferred upon him unless he may
learn of it by wireless on the steamer.
| The President also sent in the names
of the following secretaries of en-
| bassies: Philip M. Brown. of the Dis
| trict of Columbia, at Mexico City;
Henry L. James, of Wisconsin, at Con-
stantinople; Irwin B. Laughlin, of
Pennsylvania, at Berlin; Hoffman
| Philip, of New York. at Rio de Janeiro;
Montgomery Schuyler. jr., of New
York, at Toxic; George Post Wheeler,
of Washington, at st. Petersburg;
Lewis Einstein, of New York, at
Peking: Paxton Hibben. of Indiana, to
the Netherlands and Luxemburg;
Charles Dlmning White, of New Jer-
sey, at Christiania, Norway; Balkan
| Schoyer, Of Pennsylvania, at Bogota.
Colombia.
To be second secretary of the em-
bassy at Rio de Janeiro, M. Marshall
Langhorne, of Virginia.
To be agent and consul-general at
Cairo Egypt, Peter. Augustus Jay, of
Rhode Island.