Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1896 — FOR ATTORNEY-GENERAL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

Jacob Hay Brown, Said to Have Ac ceptcd a Cabinet Portfolio.

Jacob Hay Brown, who is said to have been tendered, and to have accepted, the portfolio of Attorney General in Presi-dent-elect McKinley’s cabinet, is one of the leading lawyers of Pennsylvania. Ho is the foremost member of the bar in Lancaster County, a county that for a century or more has been distinguished for its great jurists. Mr. Brown has been eminent in politics for many years, and has more than once been mentioned in connection with very high offices in the nation and in his State. He became

prominent in State and county conventions, and his speech nominating Chief Justice Agnew drew to him th® attention of political leaders of the State. He was associated with Cameron, Conkling and Logan as a delegate-at-large in the memorable battle of the “306.” All these things were more in tjie nature of means to an end rather than ends themselves. For twenty years in county, supreme ami Federal courts he has had a most varied practice as advocate or counselor, before jury or the court, in original or appellate jurisdiction. Mr. Brown is associated with W. N. Hensel in the practice of law. He was urged warmly for the vacancy on the supreme bench of the United States that was filled by the appointment of Justice Shiras. Mr. Brown is a bachelor and lives in a homestead nine miles from Lancaster.

JACOB HAY BROWN.