Dickinson, Jacob M. Lawyer, cabinet officer. Born in Columbus, MS, 1851. Graduate of University of Nashville, 1871, A. M. 1872. Studied law at Columbia University and Leipzig. Admitted to bar in 1874. Several times special judge supreme court of Tennessee. Assistant attorney-general United States, 1895-97. Counsel for United States before Alaskan Boundary tribunal, 1903. President American Bar Association, 1907-08. Secretary of war, 1909-11.

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