Foreigners In The Cabinet

So fax as we know only íhi"ee citizens of foreign birth have ever held Cabinet ]t8Ítions, and tliese tliree llave justified their appointment by their ability and fidelity. Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the ïreasiiry nnder Washington, and the father of American nuance, was born in the West Indies of a Scotch father and a Frenen mother, and was educated in England and JFrance, and his mind fnlly formed before he carne to America. Albert Gallatin, Seoretaiy of the Treasiiry ande Jeffersou and Madison, and holding the office from 1802 to 1814, was born in Geneva, Switzerland. William J. Duane, Secretary of the Treasury undor Jackson, who appoiuted him in 1833 and removed him the same year, beoause he refnsed to ohange the uepoeits from the United States Bank, was born an Irishman, but carne to this country wlnle yet a