Daniel C. Roper

Daniel C. Roper

Daniel Calhoun Roper (* 1. April 1867 in Marlboro County , South Carolina ; † 11. April 1943 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party , which the cabinet of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt as Secretary of Commerce belonged .

Life

Daniel Roper, whose father had led a North Carolina infantry regiment ( Scotch Boys ) during the Civil War , graduated from Trinity College , later Duke University , in 1888 . In 1901 he received his Bachelor of Laws from the National University in La Jolla . Since 1889 he was married to Lou McKenzie, who gave birth to two daughters and five sons.

Roper was politically active for the first time in 1892 as a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina , to which he was a member until 1894. In the following decades he embarked on a civil service career. After he initially from 1893 to 1897 for the Senate Committee on International Trade on ( Committee on Interstate Commerce had worked), he was from 1900 to 1910 at the United States Census Bureau employs. From 1911 to 1913 he was finally involved with the House Committee on Ways and Means , a committee of the House of Representatives .

He then became Deputy Postmaster General in the new US administration under Woodrow Wilson ; In 1916 he then led Wilson's successful re-election campaign. In 1917, Roper was initially chairman of the Federal Customs Commission, before he was head of the Federal Tax Office (IRS ) until 1920 .

After the election victory of the Democrats in 1932 , Roper took up the post of US Secretary of Commerce on March 4, 1933, which he remained until December 23, 1938. During this time he founded, among other things, the Business Advisory Council , a body that advised the President on economic policy issues. After resigning from Roosevelt's cabinet , Roper was appointed United States Ambassador to Canada the following year to replace Norman Armor . His credentials were from King George VI. Received personally on May 17, 1939; it was his first official act as head of state on Canadian soil.

In 1941 Daniel Roper published his autobiography, entitled Fifty Years of Public Life . He died two years later in Washington.

Web links

• Daniel C. Roper at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia (English)
• The Political Graveyard