The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-03-03
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HARDING'S CABINET
Who's Who in the President's Oft.-
ga cial Family.

i Secretary of State-charles Evans
Hughes, So, was born at Glens Fails,
N. II, April II, 1861. Studied at Col
gate university, took degrees from
Brown university, Columbia, Knox,
Lafayette, Union, George Washing.
ton, Williams, Harvard, University OF
Pennsylvania, and Yale. In 1888 he
married Antoinette Carter. He was
admitted to the New York bar IN
1884. Practiced and taught law in
New York for several years. Was
governor of New York for two terms,
1907 to 1910. Associate justice Unit
ed States supreme court 1910 to 1916.
Republican nominee for president In
EI9I6. Has practiced law in New York
since 1916. His office is at 100 Broad
/ way and his residence at 81 East
Sixty-fourth street, New York.
i Secretary of the Treasury-Andrcw
| William Mellon, banker, born at
Pittsburgh, 1859. He was educated
at the University of Pittsburgh.
Married. Is director of many import
ant banking and financial institutions.
Was long an associate of the late
Henry c. Prick in the development Of
coal, coke and iron enterprises. He
founded the town of-Donora, Pa.
where he established great steel mills.
He resides on Woodland road, Pitts
burgh.
i Secretary of War-John Winga.e
Weeks, banker, born in 1860, at Lam
caster, n. H. He was raised on-a
farm. Went to United States naval
academy Annapolis, graduating ilr
1881, and was midshipman, U. 5. N.
188I-1883. Married in 1885. Is MEN,
/ Der of banking firm of Hornblower
& Weeks of Boston, Mass. Was
United States senator from Massa-
chusetts 1913 to 1910 Received los
I votes for presidential nomination al
II Chicago convention in 1916 His
home is in West Newton, Mass.
| Attorney General - Harry NJ.
Daugherty, lawyer and politician,
was born at Washington Courthouse.
education and began the practice Of
law in his native town, remaining I'm
til 1888, when he was elected to the
Legislature. Was later chairman of
the Ohio Republican executive COM
mittee and of the OHIO Republican
state central committee. He was the
manager of the Harding boom" at
the Republican national convention in
Chicago.
Postmaster General-Will H. Hays,
lawyer, born 1879. He is a graduate
of Wabash college, Indiana, and has
long been a prominent member Of
the law firm Of Hays & Hays and a
directok of the Peoples State bani. of
Sullivi IND. He entered politics at
an easaty age and was Republican
precinct committeeman before he was
FL. He has been chairman of the Re
publican national committee since
February, 1918 His residence is a,
Sullivan, Ind.
Secretary of the Navy-Edwin
DENLY, lawyer and former congress-
| man from Michigan born-as
| Evansville, Ind, 1870. He was guil-
ner's mate on the u. S. S. Yosemite
during the Spanish-American war
. and was sergeant in the marine
corps, 1917, and on reserve as major
January 1, 1919. He was admitted
, to the bar in 1896 and has since prac-
ticed in Detroit. He visited China
when his father was minister there
and became attached to the Chinese
imperial maritime customs service for
number of years, returning to the
United States in 1894. His office is
in the Dime Bank building, Detroit,
and his residence at 529 Seminol..
avenue.
Secretary of the Interior-Albert
Bacon Fall, present United States
Senator from New Mexico, lawyer,
born in 1861. Has made a specially
of Mexican law, worked as cattleman,
farmer and miner, held Legislative
and judicial office in New Mexico.
Married. He was elected United
States senator three times (the first
time for short tcrm, his present
term expiring in 1925. He resides a,
Three Rivers, N. NJ.
Secretary of Agriculture-Henry
Cantwell Wallace, publisher of agri-
cultural papers, born in Rock Island,
ILL.,, 1866. Graduate Iowa State co.,
lege of agriculture, Ames, la. Direc-
tor Central State bank, Des Moines.
Member international committee OF
the Y. M. c. A. Farmer and breeder
of pure bred livestock, and for sew
eral years was professor Of dairying
at Iowa state college. Is married ali
resides at Thirty-seventh street and
John Lynde road, Des Moines, la.
] Secretary of Conmerce-Herbert
Clark Hoover, engineer, born in
West Branch. Ia, 1874. Degrees
from many colleges and universities
including Leland Stanford, jr., Brown,
University of Pennsylvania, Harvard,
Princeton, Yale, Oberl,n, University
of Alabama, Liege, Brussels, Oxford.
Married to Lou Henry at Monterey,
Calf, in 1899. United States food
administrator during the war and
head of practically entire food and
relief service of allies. Resigned as
food administrator June, 1919. His
home is at Stanford university, Calf.
| Secretary of Labor-James John
Davis, head of the Loyal Order of
Moose, born in Tredegar, Wales,
1874 Began work at the age OF II
in the steel mills at Pittsburgh, be-
! coming = n,dd1er Has held citv and