James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice-president of the United States, was born in Utica, N. Y., Oct. 24, 1855. Graduate of Hamilton College, taking his degree of LL.D. in 1903; admitted to the bar in 1880; has been for years a member of Congress from New York State.
Philander Chase Knox, Secretary of State, was born in Brownsville, Pa., May 6, 1853. Graduate of Mount Union College, Ohio, and University of Pennsylvania; profession, that of law; was attorney-general of the United States April 9, 1901, to June 30, 1904. At the time of his appointment by Mr. Taft he was United States Senator from Pennsylvania. He had a strong following for candidate for President of the United States previous to the nomination of Mr. Taft; is considered an able and tried man.
Franklin MacVeagh, Secretary of the Treasury, was born in Pennsylvania in 1862; but has spent most of his life in Chicago in the grocery business; has inaugurated many important municipal reforms. In 1894 made a canvass for the United States senatorship in the Democratic party, but was defeated; known as a shrewd, capable business man; graduate of Yale and the Columbia Law School of New York, but abandoned the law practise because of ill health.
Jacob McGavock Dickinson, Secretary of War, was born in Columbus, Miss., Jan. 30, 1857; graduate of the University of Nashville; studied law at Columbia College, New York, also in Leipzig, and in Paris. He is a lawyer by profession and has served several times by special commission on supreme bench of Tennessee; was assistant attorney-general of the United States, and is reported in “Who’s Who in America” as a Democrat. He was counsel for the United States before the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal.
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Philander Chase Knox, Secretary of State.
James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture.
Frank H. Hitchcock, Postmaster-General.
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Geo. von L. Meyer, Secretary of the Navy.
George W. Wickersham, Attorney-General, is 58 years of age, a well-known lawyer of New York; partner to Mr. Taft’s New York brother.
Frank H. Hitchcock, Postmaster-General; born in Amherst, Mass., 1867; graduate of Harvard, and Columbia University Law School; admitted to the bar of District of Columbia in 1894, and to the supreme court in 1897; has been a government official since 1891; was first assistant postmaster-general.
George von L. Meyer, Secretary of the Navy. He is from Massachusetts, 51 years of age, has had naval experience; is said to be a great stickler for etiquette and order.
Richard Achilles Ballinger, Secretary of the Interior, was born in Boonesboro, Iowa, July 9, 1858; is a lawyer by profession; graduate of Williams College, Massachusetts; practised law in the state of Washington, also judge of a superior court in that state; member of the law firm of Ballinger, Ronald, and Battle, Seattle; served as mayor of Seattle, and is author of two law books.
James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture since March 5, 1897, and reappointed by Mr. Taft. He was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, Aug. 16, 1835. He has been all his life a practical farmer; has also served in the Iowa Legislature; holds a degree of LL.D. from the University of Wisconsin, and has done excellent work in the Agricultural Department.
James Nagel, Secretary of Commerce and Labor, is a lawyer from Missouri; 60 years of age; is said to be a man of wealth. He will have no easy task, as he followed a most excellent man, Mr. Straus.
