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PALMER 94 and served as such during the war. He wrote two books covering the Word War, "My Year of the War" (1915); and "My Second Year of the War (1917); "America in France" (1918), "Our Greatest Battle" (1919). He contributed many articles on the war and on other subjects to leading peri- odicals. PALMER, GEORGE HERBERT, an American educator; born in Boston, Mass., March 19, 1842; was graduated at Harvard in 1864; studied at the Uni- versity of Tubingen 1867-1869; was as- sistant Professor of Philosophy at Har- vard in 1883-1889; and in 1889 became Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity there. He wrote "The New Education" (1887); •'Life and Works of George Herbert" (1905); "Life of Alice Freeman Palm- er" (1908); "Trades and Professions" (1915). PALMER, JOHN McAULEY, an American lawyer; born in Eagle Creek, Scott CO., Ky., Sept. 13, 1817. In 1839 he was admitted to the bar, and in 1843 was elected probate judge of Macoupin CO., 111.; in 1847 was elected a member of the constitutional convention, and in 1849 county judge of Macoupin co. He was elected to the State Senate in 1852, and 1854. He presided over the Repub- lican State Convention in 1856. He made an unsuccessful canvass for Congress in 1859; elector on the Lincoln ticket in 1860. In 1861 he was State delegate to the peace congress in Washington. He entered the army in 1861, retiring in 1866 with the rank of Major-General, U. S. A. He then settled in Springfield, 111. In 1868 he was elected the 16th governor of Illinois, and served four years from January, 1869. In 1872 he returned to the Democratic party and supported Greeley for President. He was nominated by the Democrats in the Legislature in 1877 and twice afterward as their candidate for United States Senator, without however, being elected; was delegate-at-large to the National Democratic convention in 1884, and was nominated by the Democratic State con- vention for governor in 1888 and defeat- ed. In 1896 he was the candidate of the Gold Democrats for President of the United States. He died Sept. 25, 1900. PALMERSTON, HENRY JOHN TEMPLE, VISCOUNT, an English statesman; born in 1784. In 1807 he was named a lord of the Admiralty un- der the Tory administration of the Duke of Portland. In 1809 he was appointed Secretary of War, and remained in the PALMERSTON office nearly 20 years. His political views having changed, he retired from Wellington's administration in 1828. Resumed his work in the Foreign Office the following year, after the fall of the Peel_ ministry. He became famous as foreign minister in the six years of office. Was appointed Foreign Secretary in the Whig administration of Lord John Russell. Serious differences with his colleagues over Napoleon's coup d'etat, forced his resignation. On the ac- cession of the Coalition Administration in the following year, he took the office LORD PALMERSTON of Home Secretary. The mismanage- ment of affairs in the Crimea caused the fall of the Coalition ministry in 1855; im- mediately after which Lord Palmerston reached the apex of power as First Lord of the Treasury, and prime minister of Great Britain. As prime minister he successfully carried out the policy of al- liance with France and the war with Russia which ended with the fall of Se- bastopol, in September, 1855, Feebly supported, however, by his colleagues, he lost strength in the House, and his administration finally fell, February, 1858, on the Conspiracy Bill. The sec- ond Derby administration succeeded, but a year later Palmerston was again called to be prii?ie minister. With surprising