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Alger, Russell Alexander, 1836-
Secretary of War: born in Lafayette, O., Feb. 27, 1836; worked on a farm for years earning
Russell A. Alger. money to defray the expenses of his education.
He was admitted to the bar in 1859, but was forced by ill health to give up practice.
When the Civil War broke out he entered the Union army as a captain, and rose to brevet brigadier-general of volunteers.
After the war he entered the lumber business, in which he acquired a large fortune.
He was governor of Michigan in 1885-87; was a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1888; was commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1889-90; and became Secretary of War under President McKinley in 1897.
During almost all of the American-Spanish War in 1898 he was subjected to much public censure on account of alleged shortcomings in the various bureaus of the War Department.
He resigned his office in 1899, and wrote a history of the war with Spain.