Evening journal., 1909-03-05

Bureau of Charities and Of the NUM-
cipal Art League and membership in
the executive committee OF the Ma
tional Civic Association, he is connect
ed with a number Of Chicago's large
financial Institutions The Democrats
Of Illinois, in 1894. nominated him Cor
Emitted S.ates Senator. He made
canvass of the State. but was defeated
in the Legislature. In 1905 he was
made vice-p president Of the American
Civic Association.
Postmaster General.
Frank II. Hitchcock. the youngest men,
Der OF the cabinet, was born at Amherst.
O., Al years ago. As to many men in that
State, knowledge OF politics came to
him early. and he took with him to Har-
ward bent IN that direction already
strong He was graduated in 1891 and from
the Columbia University Law School in
1894, receiving his IL. M. the year follow
ing. Admission TO the bar OF the District
of Columbia Immediately followed.
A government officer from 1901 on, he
has successfully been head of the foreign
markets division in the Department Of
Agriculture; chief clerk in the Depart
ment OF Commerce and Labor. under
George b. .Cortelyou; member Of the gov
ernment exposition board assistant Sec
retary Of the Republican National Com
mittee and secretary Of the inaugural
comittee; member Of the Keep commits
sion; first assistant postmaster general.
and now, first of the nine men to have
been chosen, he is to enter the Taft Cab
met as postmaster general
Secretary Of the Navy.
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Won Leugerke Meyer. who steps from the
postmaster generalship in the Roosevelt
Cabinet into the Navy Department of the
incoming administration. It spans pc
riod OFFS years, beginning in Boston June
/ a. 1865. Not long after his graduation
from Harvard, in 1879. he entered business
to become. by steadily adding to his con-
nections an officer or director in many
large companies.
His public life dates from 1889, when
he became a member of the Boston COM
mon Council, at intervals thereafter be-
coming in turn a member of the board
of alderman in 1891, a member OF the
Massachusetts legislature, 1926, during
three years Of which term he was speaker
of the House, chairman OF the Massa-
chusetts Paris Exposition managers and
member for Massachusetts, in the Repub-
lican National Committee in 1899. year
later receiving from President Mckinley
the appointment as ambassador TO Italy,
which he held until 1905. Then followed
his transfer to St. Petersburg, whence he
was recalled early in 1907 to become post.
master general in the cabinet of Presl-
dent Roosevelt, entering office on March
4 Of that year.
Secretary Of Agriculture.
The career of the Secretary of Agricul.
ture, James Wilson, began in Ayreshire
scotland. lie was born there on August
lG 1885. Il years later coming to tho
United States and settling in Connecticut
with his parents. From Connecticut he
went IN 1856 10 Tama county, Ia Up e
the time OF receiving a call in 1897 to en-.
ter McKinley's Cabinet his activities hat
been mainly confined to that state where
also he obtained his education in the pub.
lie schools and at Iowa College.
In 1861 he took up farming and soor
after entered public life as member of ths
Twelfth. Thirteenth and Fourteenth AS
semblies of Iowa Since then he has beer
a member Of the Iowa State Railway Com
mission uS77-SS), regent of the State Uni
versity OF Iowa OS7O-D. member of Con
gress from 1873 to 1877. and again from
1850. director Of the Agricultural Expert
ment station and professor Of agriculture
, in the Iowa Agricultural College, at Ames
Ia, from 1890 to 1897. On March 8. 1897, III
became secretary OF agriculture unde
, President Mckinley. post which it is hi
] pride to recall, he has retained through
the two succeeding administrations.
Attorney General.
5 In the selection Of George W. Wicker
sham for the attorney generalship, tn