Charles Joseph Bonaparte

Charles Joseph Bonaparte

Charles Joseph Bonaparte (born June 9, 1851 in Baltimore , Maryland , †  June 28, 1921 in Bella Vista, Baltimore County , Maryland) was an American politician who served in the cabinet of President Theodore Roosevelt as Secretary of the Navy and Attorney General . He was a grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte , the youngest brother of the French Emperor Napoleon I.

Bonaparte was the son of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte (1805–1870) and Susan McWilliams (1812–1881), from whom the American line of the Bonaparte family descended. After graduating from Harvard University Law School , he became a Baltimore lawyer and became involved in urban and national reform movements. On September 1, 1875, he married Ellen Channing (1852-1924). The marriage remained childless.

Between 1902 and 1904 he was a member of the US Indian Authority , 1904 chairman of the National Civil Service Reform League and administrator of the Catholic University of America . In 1905 President Roosevelt appointed Bonaparte, a member of the Republican Party , to his cabinet as Secretary of the Navy . From 1906 until the end of Roosevelt's presidency in 1909, he was Attorney General ( United States Attorney General ). He was responsible for breaking up many business cartels , such as the tobacco monopoly. In 1908 Bonaparte founded the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), later the FBI . He was one of the founders and intermittent president of the National Municipal League .

See also

Bonaparte tribe list

literature

• Joseph Bucklin Bishop: Charles Joseph Bonaparte: His Life and Public Services. 1922.
• Eric F. Goldman: Charles J. Bonaparte: Patrician Reformer, His Earlier Career. 1943.

Web links

Commons : Charles Joseph Bonaparte  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Charles Joseph Bonaparte  - Sources and full texts (English)

• Biography at the Ministry of Justice
• Charles Bonaparte in the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia (English)