Excerpt from Public Men of Today: Being Biographies of the President and Vice President of the United States, Each Member of the Cabinet, the United States Senators and the Members of the House of Representatives of the Forty-Seventh CongressThe author is under many obligations for the favor and uniform cour tesy with which his numerous applications for information, made to the honorable gentlemen whose lives are the subjects of this series, have been met, and he begs to express the hope that all who shall become their successors in office may equally assist him, or those who shall follow him in future successive series, that there may be a continuous line of illustrations and brief biographies, preserving to the world, in similar form, the personnel of our government, because of their great value not only to contemporaries but to posterity.His acknowledgments are also due to the Press throughout the country, particularly the leading journals of New York and Boston, from whose issues and files he has been kindly permitted to make many valuable extracts.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.