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private practice. but has been retained
as special assistant to the attorney
general in matters relating to the en-
forcement of the antitrust laws. Mr..
McReynolds is unmarried.
Albert s. eurIeson.
Albert Sidney Burleson already mas
served seven consecutive terms as
congressman from the Tenth district
Sixty-third Congress. He was born IN
San Marcos, Texas, in 1868. and was
educated at the Agricultural and Me-
chanical College of Texas, Baylor Uni
versity and the University of Texas.
and was admitted to the bar in 1854.
Josephus Daniels.
Josephus Daniels, secretary of the
navy, is the one newspaper man given
place in the cabinet. He has also
been active in politics and is the mem
ber of the Democratic national COM
mittee for North Carolina. Mr.. Dan
iels was born in 1862 at Washington.
N. c., and began his newspaper career
at the age OF is as editor of the Will
son IN. c. Advance In 1885 he be-
came editor of the Raleigh State
| Chronicle. which nine years later he
consolidated with the North Caroli-
| nian and the News and Observer
Franklin X. Lane.
Franklin knight Lane has been q
member of the Interstate Commerce
| Commission since 1905, and this expe-
rience is believed to have fitted him
for the executive and judicial tasks
in administering the public land laws
| Of the country. Born in Prince Ed
ward Island in 1864, he received his
education in the University of Cali
fornia and became a>lawyer In San
Francisco. Prior to his designation to
the commission he was Democratic
political leader in California. He was
Democratic candidate for governor,
being defeated by narrow margin.
| David F. Houston.
In David Franklin Houston, chan
cellor of Washington University. St.
Louis, Wilson has secretary of agri-
culture who Is familiar with the pro-
| cesses of advancing scientific farm
ing and allied questions in this coun.
try. Mr.. Houston was president of The
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical
College for number Of years, and
has taught in several other educa-
tional institutions. He was born in
Monroe, N. c.. in 1866, was educated
at South Carolina College and Har-
ward, and received the degree OF LII.
D. from Tulane and the University of
Wisconsin. He married Miss Helen
Beall of Austin, Texas, in 1890.
! William c. Redfield.
William Cox Redfield has just com
pleted his first term as a congress.
man, but he has been prominent in
the politics of New York for a good
many years. In 1902 and 1903 he was
commissioner OF public works for the
Borough of Brooklyn. In private life
he is a manufacturer of ventilating
and heating apparatus and engines.
Mr.. Redfield was born In 1858 in AL.
bany, N. Y, was educated in the
schools of that city, and removed to
New York in 1877 and to Brooklyn
in 1883.
William B. Wilson. a
Pennsylyania's representative in the
cabinet is William Bauchop Wilson
of Blossburg, named for secretary of
labor. He was born in Blantyre, Scot
land, in 1862. and came to this coun-
try in 1870. The next year he began
working in the Pennsylvania coal
mines, and from early manhood he
has been actively interested in trade
union affairs. For eight years he was
international secretary-treasurer of
the United Mine Workers of America.
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