جون ويلوك نوبل

بعد تخرجه من جامعة ييل، التحق بكلية الحقوق. بدأ دراسته في مكتب شقيقه، المدعي العام هنري ستانبيري . ^{[ 2 ]} استقر نوبل في سانت لويس عام 1855، ^{[ 2 ] [ 3 ]} وفي العام التالي انتقل إلى كيوكوك، أيوا، بحثًا عن فرص أفضل ^{[ 2 ]} في ممارسة مهنته. هناك، لعب دورًا بارزًا في السياسة. ^{[ 3 ]} عند اندلاع الحرب الأهلية، كان محامي مدينة كيوكوك، ^{[ 1 ]} وهو المنصب الذي شغله عام 1859. ^{[ 3 ]}

بعد اندلاع الحرب الأهلية الأمريكية، تم تعيين نوبل ملازمًا في فوج الفرسان الثالث في ولاية أيوا في سبتمبر 1861. وترقى في الرتب وأصبح قائدًا للفوج برتبة عقيد في يونيو 1864. وفي نهاية الحرب، حصل على ترقية فخرية إلى رتبة عميد وتم تسريحه من الخدمة في أغسطس 1865. ^{[ 4 ]}

After the war, he became a companion of the Missouri Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, a military society of officers of the Union armed forces and their descendants. He settled in St. Louis, Missouri^[1][3] after the Civil War, and was recommended by Stanberry to be US District Attorney.^[2] Overall, he was appointed United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri from 1867 to 1870.^[1][3] He resigned from that role in 1870, and began again practicing law.^[2]

The St. Louis Mining and Stock Exchange was formed in St. Louis in the fall of 1880 with Noble as a founding member.^[5]

He served as the Secretary of the Interior between 1889 and 1893.^[1] A college friend of US PresidentBenjamin Harrison, Noble was invited by Harrison to be in his cabinet as Secretary of the Interior.^[2] Noble served as Secretary of the Interior throughout the entire Harrison administration. Under his watch as Secretary of the Interior, the Cherokee Commission negotiated eleven agreements that removed nineteen indigenous tribes to small allotments in the Oklahoma Territory, while opening the land to homesteaders.^[6]

After retiring from the Interior, he began practicing law in St. Louis until his death.^[2] Two days after Noble's death, on March 23, 1912, Robert Underwood Johnson wrote to The New York Times with a letter describing Noble as a pioneer of the conservation movement in the United States. Johnson cited his work with the Interior under President Harrison, in which Noble originated the forest reservation policy, leading to reserves being proclaimed in the great Sierra Reserve and the Arizona Canyon Reserve, made possible by legislation on March 3, 1891, which Noble initiated.^[7]