Show president taft s cabinet of nine men is headed by philander chase knox secretary of state who was born in 1853 at brownsville Browns ville pa he graduated from mount union college ohio in 1872 and three years later was admitted to the bar during the years 1876 and 1877 he served as as distant united states district attorney for the western d strict of pennsyl vania in the utter vear he formed a law partnership with james H reed thich still exists and which has rep resented many large corporations in eluding the carnegie compan mr knox entered president mckenley s cabinet as attorney general in april 1901 serving until 1904 when he was elected united states senator from Fen sylVinia the latter position he ies ened to become the head of dent rafts cabinet he was a bandl date tor the presidential nomination in the republican national convention of 1908 mr arox is recognized as one of the foremost constitutional lawyers in the country for the treasury franklin macveagh secretary of the treasury was born on a farm in chester county pennsylvania bradu abed from yale in 1862 and from columbia law school in 1864 he be gan the practice of law in new york city but health forced him to aban don it and in 1865 he went to chicago and engaged in the wholesale grocery business in this and other commer caal pursuits he lias amassed a large fortune before entering the cabinet he disposed of his holdings in the big grocery firm and resigned as director of the commercial national bank of chicago mr macveagh has always been interested in movements for the public welfare locally and nationally wilson retains his place only one of the roosevelt cabinet retains his portfolio under mr taft that is james wilson of iowa secretary of agn culture so ex cellena had been his work in that alon that there was no serious talk of making a change born in scotland in 1830 mr wilson came to the united states in 1852 and three sears later settled in iowa in 1861 he engaged in farming in tama county he was a of the iowa assembly for three sessions and speaker 0 the house for one sess on and also was a member of the iowa state railway commission in 18 ia he was elected to congress serving two terms and was sent to the national legislature again for one term in 1883 he was regent ot the state university of iowa in 18 and in was made director of the agricultural ex station and professor of agri culture at the iowa agricultural col lege ames la in he became secretary of agriculture D Is war secretary jacob M dickinson of tennessee and chicago the new secretary of war was born in 1851 at columbus miss he graduated from the hersity of nashville in 1872 and after ward studied law at columbia college at the university of and in paris he served several times by special commission on the supreme benchoa benc hof tennessee and was assist ant attorney general of the united states in 1895 97 postmaster general hitchcock the first cabinet officer selected by mr taft after his election was frank H hitchcock of massachusetts who gave up bis place as first assistant postmaster general to manage success fully the tatt presidential campaign he has been given the office of post master general in the new cabinet mr hitchcock was born at amherst 0 in 1867 and graduated from har vard in and from columbia law school in 1894 since he has been a government official nagel has commerce missouri has been rewarded for its switch to the republican column by the appo ot charles nagel as secretary of commerce and labor mr nagel is a leading lawyer of st louis and the nest he was born in texas in 1849 moved to st louis when a child and graduated from the st I 1 ouis law school in 1873 he has been senior member of the law firm of nagel kirby professor in the st louis law school and a trustee of washington university in 1881 83 he was a member of the missouri house of representatives and in 1893 97 was president of the st louis city cows cil he Is a member of the bican national comm atee navy under meyer s charge president tatt s secretary of abe navy george von L meyer ot massa chu bas had wide experience as a business man legislator diplomat and cabinet officer he was born in boston in esus and graduated from harvard in 1874 he then entered business ai d bas been prominently cone eted wibb a number ot financial and mercantile concerns his career as a began in 1889 when be was elected to the boston common council he then served on the board of aldermen and in 1892 as he was a member ot the massachusetts ture the last two years being er of the house in mr meyer was sent to italy is american ambassador and in 1905 was transferred to rus sia in january 1907 president poosevelt called him home to enter his cabinet as postmaster general ball nger secretary of inte bior after about one year s service as commissioner of the general land of fice richard A ballinger of seattle wash has entered the cabinet as secretary of the interior he Is a native of iowa having been born in boonesboro Boone in 1858 after attending the university of kansas and wash burn college at topeka he went to williams college graduating in 1884 and afterward studying law and re moving to washington he was united states court commissioner in 1890 92 and later was judge of the supreme court in jefferson county wash attorney general wickersham george W wickersham who be comes president tafts attorney gen eral has had the reputation of being one of the ablest lawyers in new york city born in pittsburg in 1858 he studied civil engineering in lehigh university and in 1880 graduated from the law school of the university of pennsylvania for two years he law in philadelphia in 1884 he became associated with the law firm of strong Cadwal ladare to which henry W taft brother of tie dent belongs |