Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1918 — President’s Cabinet Members; Their Previous Occupations. [ARTICLE]

President’s Cabinet Members; Their Previous Occupations.

The names of the president’s cabinet, their residence and occupation previous to appointment follow: Secretary of State Robert Lansing of New York was a lawyer and authority on international law; Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo of New York was a lawyer and railroad manager; Secretary of War Newton D. Baker of Ohio was a lawyer and had been mayor of Cleveland; Attorney General Thomas W. Gregory of Texas, lawyer; Postmaster General Albert S. Burleson of Texas, lawyer; Secretary > of the Navy Josephus Daniels of North Carolina, lawyer and newspaper man; Secretary of the Interior Franklin k. Lane of California, lawyer and newspaper man; Secretary of Agriculture David F. Houston of Missouri, teayher and president of an agricultural college; Secretary of Commerce William C. Redfield of New York, business man connected with large corporations; Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson of Pennsylvania, mine worker, president of local miners* union and secretary of national union.