Secretary of State's Office
New secretary to qualify, announces appointment
A short item on the incoming Texas secretary of state's staffing choices, notable for the number of former newspapermen taking posts in the department.
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The Austin Weekly Statesman · January 7, 1897 · Page 5
1 min readMr. J. W. Madden, the newly appointed secretary of state, will qualify today. He announced yesterday that he had appointed Mr. W. J. Bowie of Waxahachie as one of the first assistant clerks in the office, vice Mr. McLean, resigned. The newspaper crowd will be much in evidence in the department of state, as Mr. Madden was formerly of the Crockett Economist, Chief Clerk Collum of the Garland News, and Mr. Bowie is managing editor of the Waxahachie Enterprise.
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