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Taft Cabinet Pages Names and Careers Outlined
Franklin MacVeagh of Chester County is the new secretary of the treasury after a career in law and Chicago commerce while Philander Knox and Jacob Dickinson head state and war duties. James Wilson continues as agriculture secretary with a long Iowa to Congress career. Nagel and Meyer receive commerce and navy posts. Ballinger joins interior. Wickersham becomes attorney general. The piece traces births, education, and early work for each official.
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Franklin MacVeagh
Chicago
Treasury
Jacob M. Dickinson
Agricultural Department
James Wilson
Philander Chase Knox
Pennsylvania
Taft
Brownsville
Mount Union College
Ohio
United States
James H. Reed
Carnegie Company
Mr. Knox
McKinley
Pensylvania
Wilson
Roosevelt
Town
Scotland
Iowa
Tama County
Iowa Assembly
Iowa State Railway Commission
Congress
State University of
Towa
Agricultural Experiment Station
Iowa Agricultural College
Ames
MacVeagh
The
the Treasury
Chester County
Yale
Columbia Law School
New York City
Hig
Commercial National Bank of Chicago
Dickinson
Jacob
Tennessee
University of Leipsiz
Paris
Supreme Bench of
Hitchcock
Frank H. Hitchcock
Massachusetts
Amherst
Harvard
Nagel
Missouri
Charles Nagel
Ecommerce and
Labor
St. Louis
West
Texas
Indian Territory
Navy
Meyer
George von S. Meyer
Boston
Hamilton
Mass
Ballinger
General Land Office
Richard A. Ballinger
Seattle
Wash
Boonesboro
University of Kansas
Washburn College
Topeka
Williams College
Washington
United States Court
Supreme Court
Jefferson County
Wickersham
George W. Wickersham
Pittsburg
Lehigh University
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
A Strong. & Cadwi Hadare
Simpson
State College of Ames
Town State College
Agricultural College