KELLOGG’S SUCCESSOR

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 580, 5 February 1929, Page 9

KELLOGG’S SUCCESSOR

NEW U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE MR. HENRY L. STIMSON (Australian and N.Z. Press AssociationJ NEW YORK, Monday. .. Th ® Washington correspondent of the New T ork “Times’' it is authoritatively stated that Mr. Henry -7? tin . lson ’ Governor-General of the 1 lnlippines, lias been offered and has accepted the post of Secretary of State under the President-elect, Mr. Herbert Hoover. Mr. Stimson has often been mentioned for this position. He is now preparing to leave Manila for the United States. The “Times” says he is highly litted for the post. The well-known airman. Colonel Charles Lindbergh, to-day refused to comment upon a report that he will bo Assistant-Secretary for Aviation in the Department of Commerce. -Mr. Henry Lewis Stimson, who will succeed Mr. P. B. Kellogg, was born in Xcw York City in 1867. He has received degrees from Yale and Harvard and from the Harvard Law School. He served from 1006 to 1909 as District-At-torney for the Southern District of New York, leaving office to stand for Governor of New York on the Republican ticket. He was Secretary of War from May 1911, to March, 1912, in the Cabinet of President Taft. He served in the Great Mar as colonel of the Thirty-first Field Artillery. Mr. Stimson in 1927 investigated the revolutionary situation in Nicaragua. He won over the Conservative President, Adolfo Diaz, and later influenced the Liberal Commander-in-Chief to suspend hostilities on condition that the United States should supervise the 1928 election..