Oscar Straus
Politician, Author
1850 – 1926
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Who was Oscar Straus?
Oscar Solomon Straus was United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1906 to 1909. Straus was the first Jewish United States Cabinet Secretary.
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- Born
- Dec 23, 1850
Otterberg - Also known as
- Oscar S Straus
- Parents
- Siblings
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Columbia College of Columbia University in the City of New York
- Columbia Law School
- Died
- May 3, 1926
United States of America
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on July 23, 2013
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