OVERVIEW:

BORN:
April 1, 1867:
Marlboro County, South Carolina

DIED:
April 11, 1943 (age 76)
Washington, DC

EDUCATION:
Wofford College
Trinity College (BA, 1888, now Duke University)
National University (LLB, 1901)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Democrat

HIGHLIGHTS:
1892-1894:
Member, South Carolina House of Representatives
1894-1897:
Clerk, U.S. Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce
1897-1900:
Practiced Law in Washington, DC
1900-1910:
Expert Special Agent, U.S. Census Bureau
1911-1913:
Statistician and Chief Clerk, U.S. House Ways and Means Committee
1913-1916:
First Assistant U.S. Postmaster General
1916
Chairman, Organization Bureau, Woodrow Wilson campaign
1917:
Vice Chairman, U.S. Tariff Commission
1917-1920:
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
1920-1921:
President, Marlin Rockwell Corporation
1921:
Returned to Washington, DC to practice law
1929-1943:
Trustee, Duke University
1932:
Worked on FDR’s Presidential Campaign
1933-1938:
U.S. Secretary of Commerce
1939:
U.S. Ambassador to Canada

PORTRAIT:

RESOURCES:

10/8/1936: President Franklin Roosevelt leaves for a nine-day trip during his 1936 reelection campaign. From L-R: Secretary of Agriculture Wallace; Sec. of Commerce Roper; Mrs. James Roosevelt; President Roosevelt, and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt (Library of Congress)

BIOGRAPHIES:
UVA Miller Center
Wikipedia

PAPERS:
Duke University