Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-03-11
Personnel of Jaff's HdUisory Board
PHILANDER C. KNOX.

PHILANDER C. KNOX.
Philander Chase Knox, President
Taft's secretary of state reenters the
cabinet after five years in the United
States senate, to which he was ap-
pointed in June, 1904. to fill the vacan-
cy caused by the death of NJ. S. Quay.
Mr. Knox is a lawyer and first came
into national prominence as attorney
general in McKinley's first cabinet
when he successfully prosecuted the
Northern Securities case Mr. Knox
is ffty-siX years old, having been born
in Brownsville, Pa, May 6, 1858. After
graduating from Mount Union college
at Alliance, Ohio. he began the study
of law in Pittsburg and three years
later was admitted to the bar. When
twenty-four years of age he was ap-
pointed assistant United States dis
trict attorney for the western district
of Pennsylvania. After a short term
in this Office, however, he resigned
and entered private practice with
James H. Reed. The firm became
counsel for many large interests and
it is said that Mr.. Knox has received
some of the largest fees ever paid in
this country. During the Homestead
riots in 1892 he was counsel for the
Carnegie Steel Co., and directed the
legal end of that famous disturbance.
In 1910 Mr.. Mckinley appointed him
Encouragement AS attorney-gen-
eraI Mr.. Knox not only prosecuted to
| a successful issue he governments
suit against the sO-called beef trust
with the result that that combina-
ton was dissolved by the final decree
of the United States supreme court.
Mr.. Knox has been credited also with
having prepared and carried through
the Panama canal purchase in 1908.
1t was shortly after the conclusion of
the Panama purchase that Mr.. Knox
was appointed to the United States
senate by Governor Pennypacker to
| fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Senator Quay, and afterward he
was elected by the legislature for the
full term expiring in March, 1911.
RICHARD A. BALINGER.
Richard A. Ballinger, the new sec
rotary of the interior, is a native of
Iowa, having been born in Boonsboro
in 1859. After practising law in Hi
nOis for a while he removed to Ala
bama, and in 1889 he became a resi-
dent Of Port Townsend in Washington
| state. The next year he was appoint
/ ed United States commissioner at Port
! Townsend and later was elected judge
of the superior court of Jefferson
| county Five years ago Mr.. BalIinger
was elected mayor of Seattle, and
when his term as mayor expired
President Roosevelt appointed him
commissioner of the general land of
| fee. AS a practitioner at the bar
Mr.. BalIinger made a speciality of
admiralty and maritime law. Mr..
| BallingeT's father studied law in the
| office Of Abraham Lincoln, and his
ancestors on both sides participated
! in the war of the revolution and the
war of 1912. He was prepared for
college in the public schools and is
graduate of Williams college, class
of "a. He is the author of BaIIinger
On Community Property and of Ball
fingers Annotated Codes and Statute
of Washington.
JACOB M. DICKINSON.
Jacob McGavock Dickinson, secre-
tary Of war, is the southern member
A Mississippian by birth, he is a
citizen of Tennessee and as a Cleve,
land democrat supported Mr.. Taft for
the presidency. His most notable
public service was as counsel for the
United States in the Alaskan boundary
case before the arbitration tribunal
in London in 1903. He was an ass
sistant encouragement of the United
States counsel for the Illinois Central