W. Booth, '92_l_, of the U.S. Court of Claims. Among legal
authors are Melvin M. Bigelow, '66, '68_l_, Dean of the Boston
University Law School, and recognized authority on jurisprudence and
legal history, William W. Cook, '80, '82_l_, who not only has been a
great benefactor to the University, but is perhaps the best-known author
on private corporations, as well as counsel for several of the leading
telegraph and cable companies.

Among the graduates of the University in high government positions have
been Don M. Dickinson, '67, Postmaster-General under Cleveland, and J.
Sterling Morton, '54, Secretary of Agriculture during Cleveland's second
term, when Edwin F. Uhl, '62, was also acting Secretary of State and
later Ambassador to Germany. Other diplomatic posts have been filled by
Thomas W. Palmer, '49, Minister to Spain under Harrison, William E.
Quinby, '58, Minister to Holland under Cleveland, Thomas J. O'Brien,
'65_l_, Minister to Denmark and later Ambassador to Japan and Italy
under Roosevelt and Taft, and William Graves Sharp, '81_l_, Ambassador
to France under Wilson. Michigan has for many years had a large
representation in both Houses of Congress; for example in 1913 there
were eight former students of the University in the Senate, of whom five
held degrees, and twenty-two in the House. Senator Cushman K. Davis,
'57, who died in 1900, was among the conspicuous leaders of his time,
while of the present generation are Porter J. McCumber, '80_l_, of North
Dakota, Gilbert Hitchcock, 81_l_, of Nebraska, and Charles S. Thomas,
'71_l_, and John F. Shafroth, '75, of Colorado.

In various forms of public service as well as in the business world
Michigan's graduates occupy prominent places: William C. Braisted, '83,
is Surgeon-General of the Navy, Laurence Maxwell, '74, succeeded Charles
H. Aldrich, '75, as Solicitor-General of the State Department in 1893,
Major-General John Biddle, who left the University for West Point in
1877, served as chief of staff, and later head of the American forces in
England during the world war, Charles S. Burch, '75, is now Bishop of
the New York Diocese, Dean C. Worcester, '89, was Secretary of the
Interior on the Philippine Commission, Charles B. Warren, '91, has been
counsel for this country before the Hague Tribunal, Royal S. Copeland,
'84_h_, is Health Commissioner for New York City, and Earl D. Babst,
'93, is President of the American Sugar Refining Company. Among
architects Michig