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...Osborne is well qualified to speak on subjects relating to crime and prisons. Since 1885 he has been prominent in public affairs in New York, being a candidate for the Lieutenant Governorship of New York and holding the office of mayor in Auburn, N. Y. from 1903 to 1905. He has also taken an active part in forest, fish, and game conservation holding the office of Forest, Fish, and Game Commissioner...
...pardoning activities during the two stormy years he has held office. All that time he has been faced by a hostile (Republican) legislature. He is succeeded as Governor by Ben S. Paulen, a Republican. Paulen, Davis and Editor William Allen White conducted a triangular fight for the governorship last fall. (For further news of Kansas see EDUCATION...
...Other rooms there are, innumerable; also many rare and valuable pieces of Colonial art. First among these was a painting, said to be the oldest existing U. S. portrait. It shows the countenance of Jacobus Gerritsen Striker, chief burgomaster of New Amsterdam during the governorship of Peter Stuyvesant, painted by himself. In velvet jacket, linen collar, with a three-bottle flush that time cannot temper nor death dismay, he stares out, that burgomaster, at the intrusion of the centuries...
...post of Assistant Secretary of the Navy, vacated by the resignation of Theodore Roosevelt Jr., when he attempted unsuccessfully to obtain the Governorship of New York, President Coolidge appointed Theodore Douglas Robinson, son of the first T. R.'s sister and cousin of T. R. Jr. T. (D.) R. was State Senator in New York in 1916-18, 1920-24. He is the fourth member of the Roosevelt family to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy...
Edward Jackson to the Governorship of Indiana...