OVERVIEW:

BORN:
August 9, 1849
Bernardo, Texas

DIED:
January 5, 1940 (age 90)
St. Louis, Missouri

EDUCATION:
Washington University (LL.B, 1872)
University of Berlin (Post Graduate Work)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Republican

SPOUSE:
Fannie Brandeis (m. 1876–1889)
Anne Shepley (m. 1895)

CAREER:
Moved to St. Louis, Missouri during Civil War
Began Career as Attorney in St. Louis (1873)
Missouri House of Representatives (1881-1883)
President, St. Louis City Council (1893-1897)
Judge for Missouri Supreme Court
Professor, St. Louis Law School (1886-1910)
Member of the Republican National Committee (1908-1912)
Counsel to Adolphus Busch/ Anheuser-Busch Breweries
Secretary of Commerce and Labor (1909-1913)
First native Texan to become a member of a president’s cabinet
Founder of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Attorney in Private Practice
Author of A Boy’s Civil War Story (1934)

RESOURCES:

Yale University (Papers)
A Boy’s Civil War Story
Miller Center
Texas State Historical Association
Wikipedia

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