Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1887 — IMPORTANT APPOINTMENTS. [ARTICLE]

IMPORTANT APPOINTMENTS.

Nameß of the Interstate Commerce Commission Given to the Public. Judge Cooley, of Michigan, Heads the List, with Morrison tyr Second l’luce. Sch&onmaker, New York; Walker, Vermont ; and Bragg, Alabama, Complete the Board. [Washington special.] The President has appointed the following Interstate Commissioners: Thomas M. Cooley of Michigan, for the; term of six years. AVilliam R. Morrison of Illinois, for the term of live years. Augustus Schoonmaker of New York, for the term of four years. Aldace F. AValker of Vermont, for the term of three years- ; AValter L. Bragg of Alabama, for the term of two years. Sketches of tlie Men, Thomas M. Cooley was bom in Attica, N. Y., in 18*24, and removed to Michigan in 1843, xvhere he has since resided. In 1857 he was elected compiler of the State laws, and in 1858 he was chosen reporter of the Supreme Court. In 1859 he was appointed commissioner to organize the law deoartm -nt of the University of Michigan, and he has ever since been connected with it. He served three terms in the Supreme Court, but was defeated in 1885. He is the author of numerous standard legal works and holds high rank as a jurist. He was appointed last December by Judge Gresham as receiver of the AV abash Railroad. AVilliam R. Morrison, of AVaterloo, 111.,' xvas born in Monroe County, Illinois, Sept. 14, 1825. He was educated at the common schools and at McKendree College, Illinois. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. He was .made Clerk of the Circuit Court, and for four terms was p member or and for one term Speaker of the Illinois Honse of Representatives. He xvas elected to the Thirty-eighth, Forty-third, Fortyfourth, Forty-liftL, Forty-sixth, Forty- | seventh, Forty-eighth, aud Forty-nimh Congresses as a Democrat. In the contest for the United States Senatorship in tue Illinois Legislature in 1885 he xvas one of the favorites of tho Democralic members, and all through that memorable contest, which resulted in Logan being returned,. Morrison held the sympathies of his followers. In the last Congressional campaign he xvas defeated by the Hon. Jehu Baker. Aldace F. AValker is about 44 years old, and is a Republican in politics. He studied law with Senator Edmunds. He served as a Colonel in the Union army, and since the war has practiced laxv at Rutland. In the A’ermont Senate he has taken a leading part in framing le-islatiou to sdlx'e the railxvav problem, and has given much sludy to the question.

AValter L. Bragg was bom in Alabama in 1838. He is a graduate of Harvard University and Cambridge Law School, and practiced law in Alabama for some years. At the close of the war be settled in Ala-, bama, and was for some years the law partner of General Morgan, He has been a leading Democrat in that State for some years, and has served as national delegate, Presidential elector, and member of the Democratic National Gonftnittee. In 1881 ire xvas made President o"f the Alabama State Railroad Commission, aud served in that position four years, during which time many important questions arising between the railrouds and their customers xvere satisfactorily adjusted. August Scboonmaker, of Kingston, N. Y., was bom in Rochester, in that State, in March, 18i8. He studied law and has practiced it ever since. From 1851 to 1870 he was a member of school boards and a County Judge. Iu 1875 he was elected to the State Senate as a Democrat. Iu 1877 he xvas nominated by the Democratic convention for Attorney Ggperal, and xvas elected by a plurality of over 11,000. In 1879 he was nominated for Attorney General, but was defeated. In 1871 he was the Democratic nominee for Judge of the Court of Appeals, but xvas defeated. In 1880 he was presented by the anti-Tammany delegation from New York in the Democratic State Convention as their candidate for Governor, and was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1876 and I*BBo, and also to the Chicago convention in 1884. - ~ ;-f- " '■ : ■