LABOR.  William Bauchop Wilson, born in Blantyre, near Glasgow, Scotland, in 1862, Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America (1900-09); Member of Congress (1907-13), and Chairman of the Committee on Labor in the sixty-second Congress, Secretary of Labor (1913).

POSTMASTER-GENERAL.  The first postal service in the Colonies was organized by Andrew Hamilton, a native of Edinburgh, who obtained a patent for a postal scheme from the British Crown in 1694.  A memorial stone on the southwest corner of the New York Post Office at Thirty-third Street commemorates the fact.  John Maclean (1785-1861), Postmaster-General from 1823 to 1829, was later Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court of Ohio, and unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 1856 and again in 1860.  He took part in the famous Dred Scott case, in which he dissented from Taney, maintaining that slavery had its origin merely in power and was against right.  James Campbell (1812-93), of Ulster Scot parentage, Postmaster-General in the cabinet of President Pierce, made a record by reducing the rate of postage and introducing the registry system.  Montgomery Blair (1813-83) was Postmaster-General in the cabinet of President Lincoln.  Adlai Ewing Stevenson, Assistant Postmaster-General, later became Vice-President.

SCOTS IN THE SENATE

John Ewing Colhoun (1749-1802), Member of State Legislature of South Carolina and Senator from the same state (1801), was of the same family as John C. Calhoun.  George Logan (1753-1821), a man of high scientific attainments, grandson of James Logan, Quaker Governor of Pennsylvania, went to France in 1798 with the design of averting war with that country, Senator from Pennsylvania (1801-07).  John Rutherfurd (1760-1840) was grandson of Sir John Rutherfurd of Edgerston, Scotland.  James Brown (1766-1835), Senator and Minister-Plenipotentiary to France, was of Scottish descent.  Jacob Burnet (1770-1853), Jurist and Senator, was the grandson of a Scot.  His father, William Burnet (1730-91), was a skilful physician and Member of Congress.  John Leeds Kerr (1780-1844), lawyer and Senator, was the son of James Kerr of Monreith.  Alexander Campbell (1779-1857), Senator, was of Argyllshire descent.  Walter Lowrie (1784-1868), Senator (1819-35) and thereafter Secretary of the Senate for twelve years, was born in Edinburgh.  His four sons all became prominent in law and theology.  Simon Cameron (1799-1889), grandson of a Cameron who fought at Culloden.  His ancestor emigrated to America soon after the ’45 and fought tinder Wolfe against the French at Quebec.  Simon Cameron was also for a time Secretary of War in Lincoln’s Cabinet and Minister to Russia.  He named his residence at Harrisburg “Lochiel.”  His brother James was Colonel of the New York Volunteers, the 79th Highlanders, in the Civil War.  James Donald Cameron (b. 1833), son of Simon Cameron, was