Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1903 — CORTELYOU IN THE CABINET. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CORTELYOU IN THE CABINET.

Roosevelt Makes Commerce and Labor. new cabinet officer required by the Department of Commerce bill, who will be known as the Secretary of Commerce

and Labor, is to ba George B. Cortelyou, secretary to the President The appointment, a dispatch says, meets with approval among public men, and carries out a wish of President McKinley. George Bruce Cortelyou was born In New York July 20, 1862. He was

educated at Hempstead (L. I.) institute and Georgetown pud Columbia universities. He studied law at the latter school and became a general law and shorthand reporter in New York. From 1885 to ! 1889 he was principal of preparatory schools In New York. He then entered the public service and became private secretary to various officials, in turn, including the surveyor of the port of New York and the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General in Washington. In 1895 he was appointed stenographer at the White House and when McKinley became President he was made assistant secretary. On the retirement of John Addison Porter in May, 1900, he became secretary to the President, a position he continued to fill under President Roosevelt

G. B. CORTELYYOU.