Russell A Alger, US Secretary of War Poitiers while behind him is a

while behind him is a mounted figure

He had taken the throne only two years earlier

A young Lord Nuffield riding a bicycle down a country lane

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Russell A Alger, US Secretary of War Poitiers while behind him is aRussell A Alger, US Secretary of War, 1898. Alger (1836 1907) served as Secretary of War in President McKinley's administration from 1897 until 1899, a period that included the Spanish American War. He later sreved as a US Senator for his home state of Michigan. A print from Our Country in War and Relations with All Nations, by Murat Halstead, The United Subscription Book Publishers of America, 1898.