Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1912 — CARMI THOMPSON NOW U. S. TREASURER [ARTICLE]

CARMI THOMPSON NOW U. S. TREASURER

Jesse E. Wilson's Successor Lands Plum and Will Spend Two Months Counting Uncle Sam’s Money. / » Carmi A. Thompson, the Ohio man who was given Jesse E. Wilson’s position as Assistant Secretary of the Interior, thus retiring Wilson to private life, was yesterday sworn in as treasurer of the United States, succeeding Lee McClung. In accepting Jiis commission from Secretary MacVeagh, Mr. Thompson said he would retire from public life with President Taft on March 4th. The committee was appointed by Secretary MacVeagh to count the money and securities in the treasury of the vaults

and safes. The two-months count will begin at once.