Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1895 — NEW SECRETARY OF STATE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW SECRETARY OF STATE.

Attorney General Richard Olney la Chosen by the President. . Richard Olney, of Massachusetts, the present Attorney General of the United States, is to succeed the late Walter Q. Gresham as Secretary of State. Edwin E. Uhl, of Michigan, will continue in the office of Assistant Secretary of State. Richard Olney was born in Oxford, Worcester County, Mass., Sept. 15, 1835. He was prepared for college at Leicester Academy, in Worcester County, and was graduated from Brown University, Providence, R. 1., in 1856. From that year to

1859 he attended the Harvard Law School, when he was admitted to the bar and entered the office of the Hon. B. F. Thomas, of Bostdn, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1874. Since the year of his graduation at the Harvard Law School and his admission to the bar in 1859, he has been continually in the practice of the law in Boston. He received fcis appointment as Attorney General of the United States Mdreh 6, 1893, the date) upon which President Cleveland entered upon his second term of office.

RICHARD OLNEY.