The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-03-07

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/ to twice write the degree of LID.
after his name, both the University OF
| Pennsylvania and Yale University
/ having conferred that honor upon
! him.
Richard A. BaIIfnger. -.
/ Four states may claim proprietary
| interest in Richard a BaIIiuger. the
new secretary Of the interior. He is
/ a native of Iowa. having been born in
| BOOnsbOrO in 1859; after practising
| law in Illinois for a while he re-
moved to Alabama, and in 1889 he be
came a resident of Port Townsend in
Washington state. The next year he
was appointed United States commits
/ siOner at Port Townsend and later
was elected judge of the superior
court OF Jefferson county Five years
! ago Mr.. Ballinger was elected mayor
| of Seattle, and when his term as
mayor expired President Roosevelt
| appointed him commissioner of the
| general land office
As a practitioner at the bar Mr.
Ballinger made a specially OF the ad-
miralty and maritime law, and his
position as commissioner Of the gen.
eTaI land office gave him a wide
knowledge of the land laws and other
/ important problems which will fall
under his jurisdiction as secretary of
/ the interior
Mr.. BaLinger's father studied law
! in the Office of Abraham Lincoln, and
his ancestors on both sides paTticI-
pated IN the war of the revolution
| and the war OF 1872. He was pre-
pared for college n the public schools
and is a graduate of Williams Col
| Iege. class of "a. He is the author
/ OF 'BalIinger on Community Prop
erty" and of "BaIlinger's Annotated
| Codes and Statute of Washington
I Nr. Ballinger IS a republican state
committeeman for the state of Wash
/ ingtOn, and was a member of the ad-
visOry committee during the last
campaign.
Jacob M. Dickinson.
Jacob NcGavOck Dickinson, the
new secretary of war, is the southern
member of President Taft-s cabinet
A Mississippian by birth. he Is a citi-
zen Of Tennessee and as a Cleveland
Democrat supported Mr.. Taft for the
presidency. Probably his most nOta-
BILE public service Was as OunEei for
the United States in the Alaskan
boundary case before the arbitration
tribunal in London in 1903 He WAS
an assistant attDTHCy-gouCrai Of the
United States during CIeVeIauds ad-
miuistratiOn. and has been general
road Company for some years, spend
ing most of his time IN Chicago, where
the general Offices of that company
are located. Mr.. Dickinson Is fifty
eight years Old. having been born in
Columbus. Mississippi in 1881 He IS
a graduate of the University Of Nash
Vile. from watch school he has dc
gree as Master of Arts. and he studied
law at Columbia University, al he
University of Leipzig. and IN Paris
He Is president OF the American Bar
Association, and belongs to the Chi
CagO Club, the On1cntSia and the iTO-
uuOis Clubs. all of Chicago. Mr.. Dick
usun IS the owner Of the famous
Belle Meade stock farm IN Nashville.
George Won Lengerke Meyer.
George Won LengeTke Meyer, who
goes from the postmaster generals
office to the navy department, was
brought into the cabinet in February.
1907, TO succeed FOstmasteT-GeneTa
COrtelyOU. He was at that tine am
bassadOr to St Petersburg 10 which
post he had been transferred from
Rome. where he had served five
years as ambassador. Mr. Meyer Is
native Of Boston, IN which city he
was born in 1898. After graduating
from Harvard he entered the employ
of "a commission firm, and some years
/ later became d member Of the firm
OF Under & Meyer, East Indian mor-
chants. which had been established by
1 his father. He Is an officer or direct
/ or IN many large manufacturing and
financial concerns. and has always
been active in politics. having been
member of the state legislature. sCrV-
I ing as speaker OF The lower house for
three consecutive years. MI. Meyer
! was elected a member of the rC3ubIl-
can national committee in 1893. ana
on Nckinley'S election he was made
au'ba~sadOr TO Italy He is mem
Der OF the Athletic, the Somerset and
81. BOt0lph Clubs of Boston. and
among other business Offices Is pres
idrut OF the Ames Pillow Co. and a di-
doctor of the Old Colony Trust Co. and
the AmOskeag Manufacturing co. Mr.
Meyer IS a sportsman and an angler
. and Is known as crack shot.
George w. Wickersham.
New AOrE'S representative in the
sham. who becomes attorney general
+ Mr.. Wickersham is a member Of the
/ law firm in which Mr.. Tafts brother
I Henry W Taft, is a partner. and he
! IS known as an expert in railroad law
( Although a resident OF New York Citv
MI. WiCkerSham Is a native of Penn
syIvania, having been born in Pitts
burg in 1888. He first took civil en-
cheering at Lehigh University. but
later entered the law school of the
/ University OF Pennsylvania. from
which he holds the degree of Bache-
( Tor OF Laws. He Immediately en-
tered practice in Philadelphia. but
J later went 10 New York and 2sSOr=-