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of war, and all other matters connected with the naval establishment. The heads of bureaus are chosen from naval officers above the rank of captain.

BUREAUS. Navigation; Equipment and Recruiting; Ordnance; Medicine and Surgery; Supplies and Accounts; Steam Engineering; Construction and Repairs; Yards and Docks; Justice; Marine Corps.

INTERIOR.

Department of the Interior, established by Act of Congress, March 3, 1849; principal officer, Secretary of the Interior. Originally known as the "Home Department," its functions being distributed among the departments of State, Treasury, War, and Navy.

DUTIES. The Secretary to have supervision of public business relating to patents for inventions; pensions and bounty lands; the public lands and surveys; the Indians; education; railroads; the Geological Survey; the Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas; Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming; and the Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant parks, California; forest reservations; distribution of appropriations for agricultural and mechanical colleges in the States and Territories; the custody and distribution of certain public documents; and supervision of certain hospitals and eleemosynary institutions in the District of Columbia. Also certain powers and duties in relation to the Territories of the United States.

BUREAUS. General Land Office, created April 25, 1812, in the Treasury Department; Patent Office; Indian Office, July 9, 1832; U.S. Pension Office, established in the War Department, March 12, 1833, transferred March 3, 1849; Bureau of Education, March 2, 1867; Auditor of Railroad Accounts, June 19, 1878; Architect of the Capitol; Geological Survey, March 3, 1879; Entomological Commission, March 3, 1877; Officers of the District of Columbia; Interstate Commerce Commission, February 4, 1887.

AGRICULTURE.

Department of Agriculture founded May 15, 1862, established as separate department by Act of Congress, February 9, 1889; principal officer, Secretary of Agriculture.

DUTIES. The Secretary to collect and diffuse useful information on subjects connected with agriculture; acquire and preserve all informa

tion by means of books and correspondence, by practical and scientific experiments; collection of statistics; collect new and valuable seeds and plants; cultivate and propagate such as may require a test, or be worthy of propagation, and distribute among agriculturists.

BUREAUS. Weather Bureau (from “War” in 1891); Animal Industry; Chemistry; Statistics; Section of Foreign Markets; Accounts and Disbursements; Experiment Stations; Entomology; Biological Survey; Forestry; Botany; Plant Industry; Vegetable Physiology and Pathology; Agrostology; Pomology; Experimental Gardens and Grounds; Seed and Planting Introduction; Soils; Public Roads; Seeds.

COMMERCE AND LABOR.

Department of Commerce and Labor established by Act of Congress February 14, 1903. Principal officer, Secretary of Commerce and Labor.

DUTIES. The Secretary to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce; the mining, manufacturing, shipping, and fishery industries, the labor interests, the transportation facilities; the insurance business, and complete statistics.

BUREAUS. Light-house Board; Light-house Establishment; Standards; Coast and Geodetic Survey, organized February 10, 1807; Immigration Service; Navigation (transferred from the Treasury); Census Office (transferred from the Interior); Bureau of Statistics (a consolidation of Bureau of Foreign Commerce (State) and Statistics (Treasury); Labor (created Bureau of Labor, June 27, 1884; Department of Labor, June 13, 1888); Fish and Fisheries; Manufacturers and Corporations (two new departments).

The Bureau of Manufacturers to foster, promote, and develop the manufacturing industries at home and abroad, through statistics, local and consular reports. The Bureau of Corporations to investigate into the organization, conduct, and management of corporations, joint stock companies or corporation combinations engaged "in commerce in the several states and with foreign nations"; excepting common carriers subject to "An Act to Regulate Commerce, approved February 4, 1887" (the InterState Commerce Act); and report to the President," and the information so obtained and as much thereof as the President may direct shall be made public."

This latter clause, known as the Nelson Amendment (Knute Nelson, Republican, Minnesota), establishes the principle that the Federal Government shall exercise constitutional powers to control and restrain combinations in trade that are to the prejudice of public policy and individual rights.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.

The only duty assigned the Vice-President by the Constitution is to serve as President of the Senate [except in case of impeachment of the President], and unless the Senate be equally divided he has no vote. It is known as a complimentary nomination."

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52 1792 Philadelphia

Date

Mass. 1826 Quincy

DIED

Where

Va. 1826 Monticello
N.J. 1836 Richmond Co.
N.Y. 1812 Washington
Mass. 1814 Washington
N. Y. 1825 Richmond Co.
8.C. 1850 Washington
N. Y. 1862 Kinderhook
Ky. 1850 Frankfort
Va. 1862 Richmond

Pa. 1864 Philadelphia

48 1800 Summer Hill, N. Y. 1874 Buffalo

Ky. 1575 Lexington

1796 Va. 1800 N. Y. 44 1756 Newark 21804 N.Y. 65 1739 Ulster Co. 7 Elbridge Gerry 21812 Mass. 68 1744 Marblehead, 8-9 D. D. Tompkins 1816 N. Y. 42 1774 Scarsdale 10-11 John C. Calhoun 1824 S.C. 42 1782 Abbeville 12 Martin Van Buren1 1832 N. Y. 50 1782 Kinderhook 18 Rich. M. Johnson 1836 Ky. 56 1780 Louisville 14 John Tyler 41840 Va. 50 1790 Greenway 15 George M. Dallas 1844 Penn. 16 Millard Fillmore 41848 N. Y. 17 Win. Rufus King 1852 Ala. 66 1786 Sampson Co. N.C. 1853 Dallas Co. 18 J. C. Breckenridge 1856 Ky. 35 1821 Lexington 19 Hannibal Hamlin 1860 Me. 51 1809 Paris 20 Andrew Johnson 1864 Tenn.56 1808 Raleigh 21 Schuyler Colfax 1868 Ind. 45 1823 New York 22 Henry Wilson 21872 Mass. 60 1812 Farmington, 23 Wm. A. Wheeler 1876 N. Y. 57 1819 Malone 24 Chester A. Arthur 1880 N. Y. 50 1830 Fairfield 25 T. A. Hendricks 21884 Ind. 26 Levi P. Morton 18SS N.Y. 27 A. E. Stevenson 1892 III. 2 Garret A. Hobart 2 1896 N.J. 29 Theo. Roosevelt-11900 N. Y. 80 C. W. Fairbanks 1904 Ind.

Age

Mass. 91

Va. 53 N. Y. 80

D.C. 78

D.C. 70 N. Y. 51 D.C. 68

N.Y. 80

Ky. 70

Va. 72

Pa. 72

N. Y. 74

Ala. 67

Kv. 54

Me. 1891 Bangor
N.C. 1875 Greenville
N.Y. 1885 Mankato
N.H. 1875 Washington
N.Y. 1887 Malone

Me. 82

Tenn. 67

Minn. 62

D.C. 63

N.Y. 68

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Mar. 4, 1797 Mar. 4, 1801
Mar. 4, 1801 Mar. 4, 1809
Mar. 4, 1809 Mar. 4, 1817
Mar. 4, 1817 Mar. 4, 1825
Mar. 4, 1825 Mar. 4, 1829

Mar. 4, 1829 Mar. 4, 1887
Mar. 4, 1887 Mar. 4, 1841
Mar. 4, 1841 Apr. 4, 1841
Apr. 6, 1841 Mar. 4, 1845
Mar. 4, 1845 Mar. 4, 1849
Mar. 4, 1849 July 10, 1850
July 10, 1850 Mar. 4, 1858
Mar. 4, 1858 Mar. 4, 1857
Mar. 4, 1857 Mar. 4, 1861
Mar. 4, 1861 Apr. 15, 1865
Apr. 15, 1865 Mar. 4, 1869
Mar. 4, 1869 Mar. 4, 1877
Mar. 4, 1877 Mar. 4, 1881

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1 Parton records by documents his birthplace as Union County, North Carolina; Kendall, Jackson's biographer, notes it as Lancaster County, South Carolina; Jackson, in his proclamation of 1882, called himself a South Carolinian.

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65 715 Near Louisville, Ky. (Springfield).

74 2 1 Forest Lawn, Buffalo, N.Y.

64 10 15 Minot Cemetery, Concord, N.H.

78 1 8 Woodward Hill Cemetery, Wheatland, Pa. 56 2 8 Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill. 66 7 2 Greenville, Tenn.

63 226 Riverside, New York City.

60 318 Oakwood Cemetery, Fremont, O. 49 10 0 Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, O.

56 118 | Rural Cemetery, Albany, N.Y.

71 3 6 Cemetery, Princeton, N.J...

67 623 Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind. 71 3 6 Cemetery, Princeton, N.J..

715 Westlawn Cemetery, Canton, O.

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