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Taft Cabinet Vows United Front Under Knox MacVeagh Wilson
A condensed portrait of President Taft's nine member cabinet led by Secretary of State Knox, with Franklin MacVeagh at the Treasury and James Wilson continuing as Agriculture secretary. Biographical highlights trace Knox's Pennsylvania roots and legal career, MacVeagh's Yale and Columbia education and business ties, and Wilson's long Iowa and national service, plus brief notes on Dickinson, Hitchcock, Nagel, Meyer, Ballinger, and Wickersham.
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Taft
Philander Chase Knox
Brownsville
Mount Union College
Ohio
United States
Pennsylvania
James H. Reed
Carnegie Company
Mr. Knox
McKinley
Pensylvania
Knox
MacVeagh
The
Treasury
Franklin MacVeagh
the Treasury
Chester County
Yale
Columbia Law School
New York City
Chicago
Commercial National Bank of Chicago
Wilson
Roosevelt
James Wilson
Iowa
Scotland
Tama County
Iowa Assembly
Iowa State Railway Commission
Congress
State University of Iowa
Agricultural Experiment Station
Iowa Agricultural College
Ames
Dickinson
Jacob M. Dickinson
Tennessee
Columbus
Miss
University of Nashville
Columbia College
University of Leipsiz
Paris
Supreme Bench of
Hitchcock
Frank H. Hitchcock
Massachusetts
Amherst
Harvard
Nagel
Missouri
Charles Nage
Commerce and Labor
St. Louis
West
Texas
Republican National Committee
Navy
Meyer
George von L. Meyer
Boston
Boston Common Council
Italy
Russia
Ballinger
General Land Office
Richard A. Ballinger
Seattle
Wash
Interior
Boonesboro
University of Kansas
Washburn College
Topeka
Williams College
Washington
United States Court
Supreme Court
Jefferson County