The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-05
CHARLES NAGEL.

ShahLES NAUEL.
 Charles Nagel of St. Louis, the new Secretary of Commerce and Labor. is better known among lawyers and edu- cators than to the public at large, although he served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives and is member of the Republican Ma tional Committee.
 He is a native Westerner, having been born in Colorado County, Texas, in 1919. He comes of professional ancestors, his father. Dr. Herman Nagel, being one of family of four brothers of whom three are physicians and his maternal grandfather and great-grandfather were clergymen. In the height of the Civil War the pro- nounced union sentiments of Dr. Nagel compelled him to remove from Texax to St. Louis.
 Here Charles Nagel soon, entered tie St. Louis High School Graduating from there he took two years course In the St. Louis Law School and then went to the University of Berlin, where political economy. Returning to St. Louis in 1873 he was admitted to the bar and soon took an active part in municipal affairs
 In addition to being a member of the Lower House of State Legislature, he was for four years President of the City Council of St Louis.
 Although he has taken an active part in politics and has an extended law practice, he has found time to give much attention to educational mat ters. HeSfilIs a professorship in the St. Louis Law School; is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library, of the Board of Trustees of Washington University and a member of the Board of Control of the St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts.
 MT. Nagel as the Missouri member of the Republican National Committee. served during the recent campaign as member of the Executive Committee and was In charge of the Western headquarters.
 Socially, he has been active in his native city, being a member of the University Club the Commercial Club, the St. Louis Club, the Round Table and Country Clubs and also of the Metropolitan Club in Washington City
 FRANK H. HITCHCOCK.
 Although the youngest member of the new Cabinet. Frank H Hitchcock. MT. Taft's Postmaster General, is prob ably better known to the general pub lie than any of his colleagues by reason of the prominence he obtained as Chairman of the Republican Ma tional Committee in the recent cam paign.
 MT. Hitchcock is only 42 years of age. and since he left school has been in the employ of the government. He is a native of Ohio. but received his education in Massachusetts, to which state his parents removed while he was quite young.
 Graduating from Harvard in 1891. he obtained a clerkshlp in the Department of Agriculture. Later Secretary Will son made him chief of the Division of Foreign Markets. and when the De- partment of Commerce and Labor was organized he was made its first chief clerk.
 In MT. Roosevelts first campaign he was Assistant Secretary to the Re publican National Committee. and was later appointed first Assistant Postmaster General. He resigned that position when the Taft campaign was opened to take charge of Mir Taft's ir terests. Subsequently he was elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, which post he still holds
 During his first years as a govern ment clerk in Washington Mr. Hitch cock found time to take a law cours.. at Columbian University, and on