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sent him as United States Min
lister to Peru.
I Commissioner Dent was native
of Maryland who moved Il
Georgetown and became an EN-
inent lawyer. He was active as
member of the Citizens Commit
Tee of 100.
/ Commissioner Thomas Phillips
Morgan was a water transporta-
ton expert; served on the Com
mon Council of the City OF Wash
ington; was on the Board OF Fire
Commissioners and Major of Po-
lice during his municipal career
Many Lawyers Served
| Commissioner Joseph Rodmar
West had been an Army officer In
the Mexican and Civil Wars; hao
lived in Texas and New Orleans
and served in the United States
Senate as n Republican.
Commissioner John Watkinson
Douglass was a lawyer and Com
missioner of Internal Revenue
Commissioner Samuel Edwin
Wheatley was in the lumber busi-
ness and president Of the Potomac
Boat Club.
| Commissioner Lemon Galpin
| Hine was a lawyer, Civil War vet
eran, served on the City Council
for a number of years and was in
terested in typesetting machinery
A Harvard law graduate who
served two terms in the Illinois
LEGISLATURE and became post
master here was Commissioner
John Wesley Ross. For more than
10 years he was a District Com.
missioner. Real estate and insur-
ance interested Commissioner
John Brewer Wight, who hae
served as secretary of the Wash
ington Board of Trade.
i Commissioner Henry Brown
I Floyd Macfarland was lawyer
was in the Washington bureau Of
the Boston Herald and was con.
sidered a speaker of note. HI
! served a decade as a city father
/ Commissioner Henry Litchfielc
West was another newspapermar
who became a city father. His
son is Corporation Counsel Vernon
E. West.
| Only One Woman Member
/ Hardware. brick. banking were
the business interests Of Com
missioner Cuno Hugo Rudolph
who strove for civic betterment
! Commissioner Oliver Peck New
man had been a West Point cadet
a magazine writer and news
paperman. Commissioner Fred
erick Lincoln Siddons was born In
London, England, served for a
time in the Treasury Department
taught at National University and
became a jurist On District Court
where he presided at many famous
leases, including the oil trials.
Another member Of the Fourth
Estate was Commissioner Lotii:
Brownlow.
i The lawyer Commissioner VII.
liam Gwynn Gardiner, who servee
during World War ], can re,
call the exacting days when thu
Isuffragettes picketed the Whit
House, went on hunger strike arat
caused many official headaches a
: District jail.
Sole woman member on th'
Board Of Commissioners in its lon,
history was Miss Mabel Thor
Boardman, who made a name fo
herself in Red Cross work.
Hagen Had a Years
Commissioner James Freder
lex Oyster was a businessman whit
dealt in butter and eggs. Com
missioner Proctor L. Doughert,
long represented an elevator con
Icern In Washington. is M. !. I
graduate and civil engineer
Commissioner Sidney F. Taliaferr'
turned his attention to banking
latter he left the District Build
ling. He was formerly In the In
surance business.
3 A career man became q cit.
father when President Franklin
lID. Roosevelt appointed Melvin c
.lHazen to q commissionership
lFor MIR. Hazen had "A years In tn,
District Government when he wa
ipromoted. He had served as tn
Il Districts surveyor. He cham
pioned the right Of District tax
payers to have more money ap'
appropriated out Of the Fedora
,ITreasury TO aid In running tn
,lNationaI Capital. He was sctivs
si, fighting rambling. Mr.. Ha1ex