Show THE CABINET ON AMOUNT ACCOUNT of the general interest naturally centering in the corp of advisers whom president harrlson harrison has called to his aid we herewith present brief biographical data regarding each of them it was easy to predict who would be secretary of state under president harrison from the moment when tt became known that cleveland had met with defeat in fact it was from the opening of bf the canvass a foregone conclusion that should the republicans win james G blaine would be put at the head of the cabinet president harrisons action to in fulfilling this confident expectation will meet with general approval blaine is the most famous of living republicans lie he to is also the most brilliant of living americans the word brilliant describes him with peculiar aptness for as it does not necessarily include profound wisdom nor lofty greatness it may well be applied to a man whose career resembles the flashing splendor of the comet rather rathor than the steady momentum of the planet james gillespie blaine was born bom in west brownsville Browns ville washington county pa jan 31 1830 and hence has lately entered his sixtieth year his father was a presbyterian by terian terlan of scotch irish descent and his mother was a devout catholic the son adopted the religious views of his father to which he has I 1 always adhered the family were in comfortable circumstances circumstance sand and the future statesman received in his youth and thorough education As a school boy he was remarkably precocious and at the age of thirteen years he entered college and graduated in 1847 he taught in a military school in kentucky two years after graduating and in 1854 removed to augusta maine which has ever since atnee been his home here he engaged bi Journalism quickly winning fame as a trenchant writer he engaged in the movement for organizing the republican party in 1858 1856 and in 1858 was elected to the state legislature in 1862 he was first farat elected to congress and served seven consecutive terms in the house of which he was speaker for six years on his career in congress and his repeated candidacy for the presidential nomination of his party space will not allow us here to dwell on the election of garfield in 1880 he was made secretary or state and imparted some of his personal qualities to the foreign policy of that administration on his retirement from the state department in december 1881 mr blaine found himself for the first time in over twenty years in private life and entered upon the writing of his great historical work twenty years in congress in 1884 he was nominated for preal I 1 dent bu the animosity existing I 1 against him in his own party aided in his defeat he is an ardent advocate of protection and his efforts in favor of that theory put forth during the last campaign were marked and effective the career of no american is more familiar to the american people than Is ia that of james G blaine william windom upon whom president harrison has conferred the second portfolio that of the treasury was born in belmont ohio may 1827 he became a lawyer and in 1855 removed to minnesota which has been his home ever since he was in the national house of representatives from 1859 till 1869 and in 1870 was appointed senator to fill an term he was again chosen senator for the term ending in 1877 and still again for the next term he left the senate in 1881 to enter garfielda Gar fields cabinet as secretary of the treasury but retired the same year on the accession to the presidency of vice president arthur the legislature of his state then returned him to the senate to fill the term for which it had previous ly elected him the masses of th the a people are less lees familiar with mr Win doms domIs career than with those of other prominent men in the country but among those who know him well he ranks as a man of remarkably sound and comprehensive judgment and a statesman who has made a specialty of financial questions and matters redfield proctor is perhaps the most influential citizen of vermont always of course excepting sena tor edmunds his portrait conveys nn an impression of great firmness and solidity of character he is an ex governor of his state is a man of wealth is extensively engaged in agriculture and is said mid to virtually control the output of the marble quarries of vermont it would seem that an element of perso personal naJ rather than sectional recognition influenced president harrison to offer the war port portfolio follo to him ashe held the vermont delegation solid first last and all the time for harrison during the i balloting in the national convention i benjamin P F tracy of new york is secretary of the navy 1 this gentleman has not been conspicuous as a politician but he be ranks high as a lawyer in gotham he ae s was a brigadier general genera in tibe ibe q union army and after the conflict settled down in new york city and f resumed his bla practice which has all along been very large he first came prominently before the nation by his connection with the famous beecher tilton 11 V 43 versy veray he being one of the divine divia r principal counsel his was a corn t promise appointment the two be publican factions of the empio state headed respectively by wig war ner miller and thomas 0 apte A were incorrigible and general har gar rison gave them plainly to under aa stand that they would have to adf agree IM M upon so some me one or go without cepl depre 1 sen tation As neither would conj consent set sent to the others other Is appoint appointment MOA they finally recommended general tracy and he was waa appointed ac 81 cordingly he must be past sixty years of age and is a stalwart rep licau lican 1 john willock noble Secre secretary of the interior halls hails from eba af y state which in recent years has IV I V been so prolific ot of statesmen ohto 4 he was born in lancaster county in that state october 26 1831 S ile V 1 was educated at miami university 4 and at yaler yale graduating from the tb ff latter in 1851 he studied law axed and j became city attorney of 1 iowa in 1859 80 0 he entered 00 th army and became judge advona of the army of the southwest aud and afterwards of the department y missouri he was brevet ted 8 15 n brigadier general in 1866 1865 after c the war he engaged in the practise teto of law in st louis where he haa ha A V since resided he has been united states district attorney there pd has also taken part in a number 01 great civil suits n john wanamaker postmaster general was born in i pa in 1888 and has always welded resided there he is the proprietor of opio on of the largest retail mercantile 69 in the united state is a man of surp surpassing aming financial and V 0 organizing ability and has a teu tendency dency in the direction of poo piao mal philanthropy he has an arnny army of employed emp loyes among whom he ha bo 1 introduced a system of profit sharing I 1 with excellent results he ila a founded a savings bank and library for their benefit he has aided in the establishment of religious religions institutions and various 10 charities in him exists 91 tare combination of finan CW skill foresight and capac 41 the thae genius gedius of an organizer the milk of human kindness all in ways which are calculated to do good to others john is held in high esteem abd W warm warin affection by philadel phiang A clue to the age of william lehenry ary harrison miller the new attorney general is conveyed in his name he was born nearly falty olgat years ago at a time when e fame of president harrisons harrison a landfather father was at its height wid and as 4 aI matter nalter of course his father was a S augusta oneida county new ew york is his birth place he from hamilton college at the age of twenty after which h he studied law and ehfe school at the same time luer r he studied law at toledo 0 under morrison B R waite the chief justice of the united tes supreme court while still young man he settled at fort evne ayne ind and rapidly rose in aw is profession in 1874 he became the atte law w partner of general harrison d tei removed noved to indianapolis to we intimacy and friendship result from this partnership is doubt loss attributable in a great degree at least leao the action of president 11 arrison Tt eon in choosing mr miller as WB is legal adviser in his exalted pos position governor jeremiah mclain of wisconsin has the honor of big the second secretary of agriculture re he also is a native of f the bul keye state and was born june at the age of twenty ahree years he removed to discon wiscon wn up to this time he had done spending occasional in teals vals in the common schools of the he entered the army la 1862 and became first a major colonel and in 1865 WOO brevet teda ted a brigadier general of lon for meritorious service re ne entered congress in 1870 and sac served three tarm terms in the house in 1882 he was elected governor of and has been twice 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