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CAME TO U. S. AS IMMIGRANT
WHEN A CHILD AND ROSE TO
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WAS COLLEAGUE OF ROOSEVELT
Honored by Five Presidents—Was
Student of Economics and
Noted Author
NEW' YORK. May 3, (JP).—Osc&t
Solomon Strauss, former Ambassador
to Turkey, died suddenly today. He ;
ihad been in failing health for many
months.
Coming to America in childhood
as a Jewish immigrant, Oscar Sol- j
omon Straus was twice minister and
once ambasador to Turkey, and the ;
first of his race to become a member
of the Cabinet of a President of tihe
United States. He devoted part of1
his life to social welfare and philan- '
thropie work and was for 30 years
active in public sendee. Honored by j
five presidents of his adopted country
as a statesman and diplomat, he was
a colleague <jf President Roosevelt
in the formation of the Progressive
Party, and in 1912 became the can
didate of this party for Governor of !
New York.
The diplomatic career of Mr.
Straus began in 1887 when he was
appointed Minister to Turkey by
President Cleveland, whose nomina
tion for the Presidency be had con
spicuously urged. As American Min
ister to the Cottman Empire, he was !
instrumental in reopening 50 schools \
and protecting more than 500 mis- j
sions from harm. He brought about
a better understanding and more
friendly relations between the Un
ited States and Turkey and promo
ted the establishment of Commerce
between the two countries. He re
mained at his post three years.
When President Roosevelt, in 1902
sought a man, versed in government
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al affaire and (fiploaaaey Qualified to
succeed former President Haratoon
as a member of the Permanent
Court of Arbitration at The Hagne,
the choice fell upon Mt. Straus.
Pour years later President Rooee
| velt appointed him Secretary of Com
mence and Labor in his Cabinet. In
this position, Secretary Straus, once
an immigrant himself, had charge of
! all immigration to this country. One
! of the first things the new Secretary
did upon entering his office was to
| order an investigation of the accom
modations for steerage passengers
on ocean steamers.
I' In a crisis in the Turkish Empire
in 1909. -Mr. Straus was persuaded
by President Taft to again take up
the duties of representing the L'nited
States in that country, this time as
Ambassador. The next year Mt.
Straus was successful in obtaining
from the Turkish government a de
cision whereby all foreign religious,
educational and benevolent institu
tions were permitted to hold landed
property. More than 300 American
organizations were affected by this
decision.
President Wilson, in 1914, reap
pointed Mr. Straus as a member of
the permanent Hague Tribunal for
six yeans. This was his third ap
pointment to that office as be had ;
been reappointed by Mr. Roosevelt >
in 190S. Mr. Straus was appointed j
by Governor Whitman in 1915 as a ^
member of tbe Fin# TW^irtot of ttm
Public S*n1» Oommassiox of Nor
Tori: State. He was at tbte UM a
member of the advisory m—minin
of the Commission for Helm' It Rel
glum. of nMEk Comnniesion Seibert
C. Hoover was the chairman
Bore in Otterberg. Kbeuesh Bavar
ia. Germany, December IS lS5b, Mr
Straus was the sou of Lazarus Straus
an agriculturist, who floe from his
fatherland 1r TS52 because be had
taker, pant in a revolution te lb4k.
Settling in Philadelphia for a short
time, Lazarus Straus rook hi? fam
ily to Talbot ten. Georgia, where moot
of the boyhood o: Oscar Straus was
spent ana whore he shadier in Col
li ngs worth Insnirma. Later his fa
ther moved to New York City and
Oscar Straus continued his studies
at Columbia College. After practi
cing law in New York City for a
time, Mr. Sf-aus and his two bro
thers engaged it large department
store enterprises in New York and
Brooklyn.
Mr. Straus was a student <o; econ
omics, wrote several books or that
subject and was the author of ter:
books in American universJtaes Am
ong his works are. “The Origin of
the Republican Fbnn of Government
in the Tnited States." Roger MTL
liams. the Pioneer of Religious Lib
erty,” “The Development of ReOagieus
Liberty in the Fuated States." “The
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