The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-03-12
PRECEDENT SET BY 10. ADAMS
Six Upper Mississippi States Not
In Official Family
FURNISHED MANY NOTED MEN

Washington. ID. c., March l2.-That
the six great states of the upper Mis-
sissippi valley have no place in the
new cabinet has been "A subject of
some comment since the change in ad-
ministration. but what seems more
surprising, in the minds of the old
timers in the capital, is the fact that
New England is without representa-
tion in Mr.. wilson's official family. In
leaving New England out i'm the cold,
Mr.. Wilson has all but established a
! precedent. only once before in the
history of the nation has New Eng
/ land been without representation In
the cabinet. This was during the ad-
ministration of John quincy Adams,
| from 1926 To 1929.
During the administrations Of Pres
ident Washington, New England was
| represented in the cabinet by Tim
othy Pickering of Massachusetts. see
rctary of state; oliver Wolcott of Con-
pecticut. secretary of the treasury, and
| Samuel Osgood of Massachusetts,
| postmaster general.
Secretaries Pickering and Wolcott
continued in office under President
Adams and later Samuel Dexter of
Massachusetts. Roger Griswold of
! Connecticut and TheOphihs Parsons
Of Massachusetts came into the cab
met.
In Jeffersons cabinet New Eng
| lands representatives were Henry
Dearborn of assachusetts. secretary
of war Jacob Crowninshied of Mas
sachusetts, secretary of the navy; CID
con Granger of Connecticut, postmas-
ter general, and Levi Lincoln of Mas
sachusetts. attorney general.
President Madison had william Eus
It's Of Massachusetts for secretary of
war, Il w. Crowninsheld Of Massa
chusetts, secretary or the navy and
Gideon Granger Of Connecticut. post
master general.
John Quincy Adams of Massachu-
setts was secretary of state under
President Monroe and Mr.. Crownin-
shield continued for short time as
secretary of the navy.
! Levi Woodbury. of New Hampshire
was in the cabinet of President Jack
son. serving first as secretary of the
treasury and later as secretary of the
navy.
Mr.. Woodbury. continued as secre-
tary of the treasury through the adj
ministration of President Van Buren,
and John II. Niles Of Connecticut
served for a time as postmaster gem
eral.
Daniel Webster of Massachusetts
was appointed secretary of state by
| President w. II. Harrison and contin-
ued into the administration of Tyler
David Henshaw of Massachusetts, al
| so sat IN the Tyler cabinet as secretary
of the navy.
was secretary of the navy in Folks
cabinet and Nathan Clifford of Maine
and Isaac Toucey of Connecticut were
attorneys general
Jacob Collamer of Vermont was the
New England representative in Pres
p, ident Taylor's cabinet. serving as
postmaster general.
| Daniel Webster returned to the post
cf secretary OF state under President
Fillmore, and Samuel ID. Hubbard of
Connecticut was postmaster general
Caleb Gushing of Massachusetts was
attorney general under President
Pierce.
Isaac Toucey of Connecticut was Sec
! retary of the navy under President
Buchanan and Horatio King of Maine
served for n brief period as postmas-
ter general
In the Lincoln cabinet were william
=. Fessender of Maine. secretary of
| the treasury, and Gideon Welles of
Connecticut, secretary of the navy.
Mr. Welles continued in the cabinet
of President Johnson.
Grants cabinet officers included
George 8. Boutell and William A..
| Richardson of Massachusetts,, secre-
taries of the treasury; Ebenezer Hoar
Of Massachusetts. attorney general.
and Marshall Jewell of Connecticut.
postmaster general.
Charles Devens of Massachusetts.
attorney general. was the New Eng
land representative IN President Hayes
official family
James q. Blaine of Maine was Pres
ident Garfields secretary Of state.
and President Arthur had William T..
Chandler of New Hampshire for Sec
retary of the navy william G. Endi-
colt of Massachusetts was secretary OF
war during the first Cleveland admin
istration.
In the Mckinley cabinet John d.
Long of Massachusetts was secretary
of the navy. In the Roosevelt cabinet