HOOVER, Herbert Clark,

Secretary of Commerce; Engineer; b. West Branch, Ia., Aug. 10,
1874; Educ. B.A. (in mining engring.), Leland Stanford, Jr., U.,
1895; (LL.D., Brown U., U. of Pa., Harvard, Princeton, Yale,
Oberlin, U. of Ala., Liege, Brussels; D.C.L., Oxford); Asst. Ark.
Geol. Survey, 1893, U. S. Geol. Survey, Sierra Nevada Mountains,
1895; in W. Australia as chief of mining staff of Bewick, Moreing &
Co. and mgr. Hannan's Brown Hill Mine, 1897; chief engr. Chinese
Imperial Bur. of Mines, 1899, doing extensive exploration in
interior of China. Took part in defense of Tientsin during Boxer
disturbances; Chmn. Am. Relief Com. London, 1914-15, Commn. for
Relief in Belgium, 1915-18; chmn. food com. Council of Nat.
Defense, Apr.-Aug. 1917; apptd. U. S. food administrator by
President Wilson, Aug. 10, 1917, resigned June, 1919. Secretary of
Commerce, 1921

LODGE, Henry Cabot,

Senator; b. Boston, May 12, 1850; Educ. A.B., Harvard, 1871, LL.B.,
1875, Ph.D. (history), 1876; (LL.D., Williams, 1893, Yale, 1902,
Clark U., 1902, Harvard, 1904, Amherst, 1912, also Union Col.,
Princeton U., and Dartmouth Coll., and Brown, 1918); Admitted to
bar, 1876; editor North American Review, 1873-6, International
Review, 1879-81; mem. Mass. Ho. of Rep., 1880, 81; mem. 50th to 53d
Congresses (1887-93), 6th Mass. Dist.; U. S. senator, since 1893;
mem. Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, 1903; mem. U. S. Immigration
Commn., 1907