FALL, ALBERT BACON

(1861), American legislator and executive; 6 Frankfort, Ky. His early educatior was limited, but he was an omnivorous reader and indefatigable student anc fitted himself for the practice of law being admitted to the bar in 1889. He went West and became interested in land, mining and lumber enterprises, in which he ama ed a fortune. He took an active interest in politics and was a member of the New Mexico legislature and a ociate justice of the Supreme Court of that State. He was elected tc the United States Senate as a Republican in 1912; was re-elected in 1918 and on March 5, 1921, was made Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet of President Harding. He resigned that post March 4, 1923, in order to devote himself to his busine interests.