Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1886 — NEW MINISTER TO MEXICO. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW MINISTER TO MEXICO.

Judge Thomas Courtland Manning, of ■ Louisiana. !_ / Thomas C. Manning, the new Minister to Mexico, is about 55 years of age. He was bom in North Carolina. In 1855 he moved to the town of Alexandria, La., as a lawyer. He was a member of the State Constitutional ...Convention in 1861, which voted the Pelican State out of the Union. This, meant war, and he immediately enlisted, and rose to be Adjutant General of the

State in 1863. In 1864 Governor Allen appointed him Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. After the war he resumed his law practice. In 1877 he was appointed Chief Justice of the State of Louisiana. In October last Judge Manning brought to President Cleveland the official notification of the latter’s election as a trustee of the Peabody fund, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of General Grant. After Judge Manning had completed his interview with the President and Cabinet, the President remarked to Secretary TJayard, “That man ought to be in the public service,” and on the first opportunity—that offered by the resignation of Minister Jackson—he has appointed him.