FOUCHE, JOSEPH, DUKE OF

entered enthusiastically into Revolution; prominent in Jacobin movement; suppre ed revolt at Lyons with utmost severity; on return quarrelled with Robes pierre, who had him expelled from Jacobin Club; imprisoned for short time in 1795; amba ador to Cisalpine Republic, 1797; Chief of Police, 1799, continuing in office under Napoleon, who cr. him Duke of Otranto, 1808; deprived of office, 1810, and sent to Rome as titular gov. After Napoleon’s fall, F. became Minister of Police under Louis XVIII.; retired from public life, 1816, and d. in exile. town, Ille-et-Vilaine, France; formerly one of strongest places in Britt any, frequently besieged; boots and shoes manufactured. Pop. 21,000. (1851), a bishop, b. at Shepherds town, W. Va., s. of William Henry and Mahala Ann Chaplain Foulke. He was educated in the common schools at Dixon, Ii. and took a conference course of four years after entering the ministry. He was licensed to preach in 1876 and was pastor of various churches in Illinois until 1895. He was presiding elder of at Naperville, 1900-2; editor of 8.8, and C.E. literature, 1902-10 and was a bishop from 1910-18 when he became as so, editor of Evangelical, (1848), author and lawyer; b. New York City. After graduating in 1869 at Columbia Law School he practiced in New York and removed in 1876 to Indiana, where he acted as attorney for the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St, Louis Railroad for fifteen years, served in the State Senate, 1882-6, and edited the Palladium and the Evening Item. He became interested in civil service reform, undertaking several investigations in that field for the government, and from 1901 to 1903 was U.S. Civil Service Commi ioner. He also headed the National Municipal League from 1610 to 1913. His writings include novels, plays, and contributions to periodical literature on historical, administrative and other themes. In 1922 he published A Hoosier’s Autobiography. (1879), army aviation officer; 6. Connecticut. He graduated from the Infantry and Cavalry School in 1906 and two years later from the Army Signal School after serving in the ranks (engineers and infantry) as private, corporal and sergeant. He was promoted to first lieutenant of infantry, and with that rank was a igned to the Signal Corps in 1908, becoming aviation captain, then major, and provisional brigadier-general of the air service in 1917. Hesaw service as aviation officer in M.exico, 1916-17, and took a leading part in organizing American aerial plans in the World War, including the drafting of the aviation bill of 1917 outlining an expenditure of $640,000,000. He was chief of the air service of the American Expeditionary Force in that conflict and a member of the Aviation Committee of the Supreme War Council.