Straus, Oscar Solomon (1850-1926)

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Theodore Roosevelt to William Boyd Allison, January 29, 1907

Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Jane Addams, March 15, 1908

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, March 16, 1908

Viola Percy Conklin to Jane Addams, March 17, 1908

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, March 18, 1908

National Conference of Charities and Corrections, The National Bulletin, November 12, 1908 (excerpts)

Edward Menkin to Jane Addams, May 12, 1911

Amos Pinchot to Theodore Roosevelt, December 23, 1912

Anna R. B. Lindsay to Jane Addams, January 10, 1913

Suggestions for Advisory Committee Membership, Progressive Service Committee, January 28, 1913

Albert Jeremiah Beveridge to Jane Addams, December 17, 1913

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, July 17, 1915

Hamilton Holt, Fannie Fern Phillips Andrews, & Frederick Lynch to Jane Addams, July 23, 1915

Herman Jerome Schwartz to Jane Addams, September 27, 1915

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, September 29, 1915

Platform of The World's Court League Inc., January 16, 1917

Lucia Ames Mead to Jane Addams, March 7, 1918

General Committee on the Limitation of Armament Declaration and Membership, November 1921

Jane Addams to Florence Gottschalk Taussig, November 23, 1921

Lucia Ames Mead to Jane Addams, August 7, 1922

Jane Addams to Oscar Solomon Straus, November 12, 1908

Jane Addams to Oscar Solomon Straus, February 18, 1909

Jane Addams to Oscar Solomon Straus, July 8, 1913

Announcement, Association pour la Sauvegarde du Droit es Gens, 1915

Emily Greene Balch to William Jennings Bryan, September 7, 1916

John Dewey et al. to Andrew Carnegie et al. January 31, 1917

H. A. Stevens to Jane Addams, November 23, 1908

Oscar Solomon Straus to Jane Addams, December 5, 1908

Oscar Solomon Straus to Jane Addams, June 17, 1913

Oscar Solomon Straus and William Harrison Short to Jane Addams, November 19, 1921

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Birth Date

1850-12-23

Death Date

1926-05-03

Birthplace

Otterberg, Germany

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Oscar Straus was born in Germany. When his family immigrated to the United States, they settled in Georgia. In his adulthood, Straus moved to New York and graduated from Columbia College in 1871 and Columbia Law School in 1873. He then practiced law for a time, then worked as a merchant. In 1887 became United States Minister to the Ottoman Empire. He served two terms, one from 1887 to 1889 and one from 1898 to 1899. In 1902, Straus became a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, and in 1906 he became the United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor under President Theodore Roosevelt, also serving as the head of the U.S. Bureau of Immigration, where he enforced the Anarchist Exclusion Act. From 1909 to 1910, Straus was the U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and in 1915 he was the chairman of the public service commission of New York State. He was also president of the American Jewish Historical Society.

Straus married Sarah Straus in 1884. Straus died in 1926.