Charles Nagel

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Charles Nagel

Charles Nagel (born August 9, 1849 in Bernardo , Colorado County , Texas , †  January 5, 1940 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was an American lawyer and politician of the Republican Party , who served in the cabinet of US President William Howard Taft served as the last Minister of Commerce and Labor .

Professional career and public offices

A native of Texas Nagel attended boarding school in St. Louis and then stayed in Missouri to attend the Law School of Washington University Law study. There he graduated in 1872. As a result he traveled to Europe for further training; Among other things, he attended seminars in political economy at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

In 1873 he returned to St. Louis, where he was inducted into the state bar and began practicing as a lawyer. He was politically active from 1881, when he was elected to the House of Representatives from Missouri , to which he belonged until 1883. From 1893 to 1897 he was President of the St. Louis City Council; in 1893 he was also elected judge on the Supreme Court of Missouri . From 1886 to 1910 he was also a lecturer at the St. Louis Law School ; between 1908 and 1912 he was a member of the Republican National Committee .

Member of the Cabinet

In the meantime, he had taken up a position as a corporate lawyer for the brewery entrepreneur Adolphus Busch when the newly elected US President Taft appointed him to his cabinet in March 1909 . During his four-year tenure, he focused the ministry more than before on the needs of business people; he also expanded the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization under his supervision . He was also one of the founders of the US Chamber of Commerce .

Nagel left the government in 1913 together with the elected President Taft; he was the last owner of his ministerial office before the Department of Commerce and Labor in the trade and the Ministry of Labor was divided. After the end of his political career, Charles Nagel again worked as a lawyer, where he tried three cases before the Supreme Court , to which his brother-in-law Louis Brandeis was a judge at the time . Nagel died in 1940.

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SURNAME Nagel, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernardo , Texas
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1940
Place of death St. Louis , Missouri