Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-03-11
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Of great interest to the country at
this time is the Cabinet which d to
be President Taft s official fsrnily for
the present administration. The
following sketches of the men chosen
by the incoming president, are taken
from a recent article in the Philadel-
phia Recera.as..
Secretary Of State.
Philander Chase Knox was born
at Brownsville Pa, in 1885. He
graduated at Mt. Union College,
Ohio, in 1872; was admitted to the
bar in 1875. From 1876 to 1877 he
was assistant United States district
attorney. In 1901 he was appointed
Attorney General of the United
States By President Mckinley and
retained the post under Presidents
Mckinley and Roosevelt until 1904,
when he was appointed by Governor
Pennypacker to succeed the late M.
S. Quay as United States senator
from Pennsylvania. He has been in
he Senate ever since.
Secretary Of tie Treasury.
Franklin MacVeag1, a brother of
Wayne MacVeagh, who was a mem
Der Of the Garfield cabinet, was born
In Chester county, Pennsylvania, and
graduated in 1862 from Yale and in
1864 from the Columbia Law School.
On account Of ill2health gave up the
profession and went to Chicago,
where he embarked in mercantile
pursuits. He was Democratic condi.
date for the United States senate
from Iillionois in 1894 but was de-
feated. He is president of the Bu-
reau Of Charities and Municipal Art
is a member Of the executive COM
mittee Of the National Civic Fedora
ton and is vice-president of the Am
erican Civic Association.
Secretary of War.
Jacob McGavoc Dickinson was
born at Columbus, Miss, in 1851,
and graduated from the University
OF Nashville in 1871. He served sew
eral times ty special commission of
the Tennessee supreme court. From
1895 to 1897 he was assistant attor-
ney general of the United States. In
politics he has generally been a Demo-
crat. He will be appointed as from
Tennessee. He is president of the
American Bar Association. He
weighs go pounds and is 6 feet 8
inches in height. He is wealthy. He
and Mr.. Taft call each other Chip
and Cake"
Attorney General.
George w. Wickersham is a native
Of Pennsylvania, was born in Pitts
burg in 1853. He graduated at the
University Of Pennsylvania, with the
degree Of LII. B. in 1880. In Martin
dales American Law Directory he is
rated as livery good'' in legal ability
and Every high" under the classif-
cation of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
are the highest and most laudabie
ratings contained in the directory.
Mr.. Wickersham has been particular
~ prominent in corporation law, and
in this respect resembles his two pre-
decessors-Senator Knox and Sena-
tor-elect Root.
Postmaster General.
Frank Harris Hitchcock has been a
government official nearly ever since
he graduated from Harvard in 1891,
He was, born inq1S67, He held various
c~lerkships, bureau chieftainships, etc,
and finally became assistant post
master general. He took charge of
the campaign of George B. Cortel-
You for the presidential nomination.
but when this boom was squelched
was invited to become manager for
The Taft boom which he did.
Secretary Of the Navy.
George Won Lengerke Meyer, now
postmaster general. was born in 1859
graduated from Harvard in 1879. Ee
IS very wealthy. He was speaker of
the house in Massachusetts in 1894
and was appointed ambassador to
Italy in 1000. In 1905 he was trans.
ferred to Russia, and in 1907 YVES r..
called to become a member of Presi-
dent R%oosevelt's cabinet. /,
Secretary Of the Interior.
Richard Achilles Rallinger was
born In Ohio in 1853, and .afte,
graduating in 1886 from Williams
College, Massachusetts, removed tx
Seattle, Wash. He has written +;
number Of volumes upon the lew
seved one term as a superior court
Judge, one term rs mayor of Seattle
and has since 1907 been commissions
OF the general land Office.
Secretary Of Agriculture.
James Wilson IS a Seotchnan. ane
therefore the one ma in the cabine
who could not succeed TO the presi
dency. He was. born in 1885. and
came to the United States IN 1852
settling in Connections, but went t,
{ Iowa, where he engaged in farming
de has been secretary of agricuItur,