TREASURY.  George Washington Campbell (1768-1848), Secretary (1814), was also Minister to Russia (1810-20).  Alexander James Dallas (1759-1817), Secretary (1814-16), was the son of a Scottish physician, Dr. Robert C. Dallas.  During 1815-16 he also discharged the functions of Secretary of War.  Had a distinguished career as a statesman.  Louis McLane (1776-1857), son of Allen McLane, a Revolutionary soldier and Speaker of the Legislature of Delaware, had a distinguished career as Senator from Delaware (1827-29), Minister to Great Britain (1829-31), Secretary of the Treasury (1831-33), and Secretary of State (1833-34).  His son, Robert Milligan McLane (1815-98), had a distinguished career as a diplomat.  James Guthrie (1792-1869), Secretary in the cabinet of President Pierce (1853-57).  Thomas Ewing (1789-1871), was United States Senator from Ohio (1831-37), Secretary of the Treasury (1841), Secretary of the Interior (1849-50).  He traced his descent from Findlay Ewing, a native of Loch Lomond, who distinguished himself in the Revolution of 1688 under William of Orange.  Hugh McCulloch (1808-95), descended from Hugh McCulloch, Bailie of Dornoch, Sutherlandshire, was Comptroller of the Currency (1863-65), Secretary of the Treasury (1865-69, 1884-85).  He funded the National Debt during his first term as Secretary.  Charles Foster (1825-1904), Governor of Ohio (1880-84), was Secretary of the Treasury from 1891 to 1893.  Franklin MacVeagh (b. 1837), of Scottish ancestry, also held the office under President Taft.

INTERIOR.  Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart (b. 1807), Secretary in President Fillmore’s cabinet, was son of Archibald Stuart, a Scot who fought in Revolutionary War.  Thomas Ewing is already referred to (under Treasury).  Samuel Jordan Kirkwood, Secretary of the Interior under Garfield, was also three times Governor of Iowa.

NAVY.  Benjamin Stoddert (1751-1813), Secretary (1798-1801), was grandson of a Scot.  William Alexander Graham (1804-75), Secretary (1850), was also Governor of North Carolina.  He projected the expedition to Japan under Commodore Perry.  James Cochrane Dobbin (1814-57).  Paul Morton (1857-1911), Secretary (1904-05), was said to be descended from Richard Morton, a blacksmith and ironmaster of Scottish birth, who came to America about the middle of the eighteenth century.

STATE.  James Gillespie Blaine (1830-93), Secretary (1881, 1889-92) and unsuccessful candidate for President in 1884.  John Hay (1838-1905), one of the ablest Secretaries of State (1898-1905) this country ever had, was also of Scottish descent.  He also held several diplomatic posts in Europe (1865-70), culminating in Ambassador to Great Britain (1897-98).

AGRICULTURE.  James Wilson (1835-1920), Secretary (1897-1913) under McKinley, Roosevelt, and Taft, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland.  He was Regent of Iowa State University, and in 1891 was elected to the chair of Practical Agriculture in the College of Agriculture and Director of the State Experiment Stations.  He was wonderfully successful in the expansion and administration of the “most useful public department in the world.”