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Show SECRETARIES OF STATE. Thcra W ere Just Thirty of Them Before Foster Came In. Secretary Foster is the thirty-first occupant oc-cupant of the oflice. Seven out of the thirty who preceded him became president presi-dent Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Van Buren and Buchanan. Buchan-an. One, John Marshall, became chief justice of the supreme court. Many of the others were the leaders of the parties par-ties who missed the presidency only by the accidents of politics. As Mr. Foster looks over the list of those who held the cilice before him he may well congratulate congratu-late himself, says the New York Advertiser, Adver-tiser, on getting into such distinguished company. In addition to the great names already mentioned, look at tlie others: Edmund Kandolph, Timothy Pickering, Ilobert Smith, Henry Clay, Edward Livingston, Living-ston, Louis McLane, John Forsyth, Daniel Webster, Iluffh Legare, Abel P. Upshur, John C. Calhoun, John M. Clayton, Clay-ton, Edward Everett, William M. Mavey, Lewis Cass, Jeremiah S. Black, William II. Seward, Elihu IS, Washburne, Hamilton Ham-ilton Fish, William M. Evarts, F. T. Frelinghuysen, Thomas F. Bayard and James CI. Blaine, Two of these served at different times and under different presidents presi-dents Webster under William Henry Harrison and Fillmore, and Blaine under Garileld and Benjamin Harrison. Harri-son. There are now two Secretaries Foster and .two cabinet otlieers from one state. For the latter there arc-many arc-many precedents, but for the former none, this being the first time that two men of the same name have ever sat in a cabinet together. |
