Richard Olney and His Public Service
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781417998999
Subjects: Non-Classifiable; Novelty
First sentence: IN 1893, Richard Olney, fifty-seven years of age, was absorbed in an excellent but quiet law practice which he had been pursuing in Boston for thirty-five years, when all of a sudden Cleveland, anxious to include a New-Englander in his list of Cabinet appointments, pounced upon him and bore him off to Washington to duties which were new and honors which he had never sought.