Secretary of the Department of Labor and Commerce, 1906-1909.
From the description of Letter, 1906 Nov. 7, New York, to Lee M. Friedman, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 174212191
American ambassador and government official.
From the description of Papers, 1869-1947. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122589779
Attorney, businessman, public official, diplomat, U.S. secretary of commerce and labor, and author.
From the description of Oscar S. Straus papers, 1856-1955 (bulk 1856-1923). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131237
Biographical Note
1850, Dec. 23
Born, Otterberg, Bavaria
1854
Came to America and lived in Talbotton, Ga.
1865
Moved to New York, N.Y.
1871
A.B., Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1873
LL.D., Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1873
1881
Practiced law, New York, N.Y.
1881
1906
Member of the firm L. Straus & Sons, importers of pottery
and glassware
1882
Married Sarah Lavenburg (died 1945)
1885
Published The Origin of Republican Form of Government in the United
States of America. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons
1887
1889
Minister to Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
1894
Published Roger Williams, the Pioneer of Religious Liberty. New York: The Century Co.
1898
1899
Minister to Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
1902
1924
Appointed member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, Hague,
Netherlands
1906
1909
United States secretary of commerce and labor; first Jew
appointed to a cabinet position
1909
1910
Ambassador to Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
1912
Chairman, arbitration commission to decide wage dispute
between eastern railways and their engineers
1913
Published The American Spirit. New York: The Century Co.
1915
1918
Chairman, New York Public Service Commission, First
District
1919
Chairman, Paris Committee of the League to Enforce
Peace
1919
1920
Member, President's Second Industrial Conference to establish
a code of industrial relations
1922
Published autobiography Under Four Administrations, from Cleveland to Taft;
Reflections of Oscar S. Straus. New York: Houghton Mifflin
1926, May 3
Died, New York, N.Y.
From the guide to the Oscar S. Straus Papers, 1856-1955, (bulk 1856-1923), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)