OVERVIEW:

FULL NAME:
Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss

BORN:
January 31, 1896;
Charleston, West Virginia

DIED:
January 21, 1974 (age 77);
Brandy Station, Virginia

POLITICAL PARTY:
Republican

HIGHLIGHTS:
1917-1919:
Personal Secretary to Herbert C. Hoover, Head of the Belgian Relief Committee
1919:
U.S. Delegate to Final Armistice Convention
1919:
Joined Kuhn, Loeb & Company (New York, NY)
1926:
Entered Navy Reserve
1929-1947:
Partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Company (New York, NY)
1938-1948:
President of Temple Emanu-El (New York, NY)
1941:
Entered Active Naval Duty;
Adviser to Navy Under Secretary James Forrestal
1945:
Promoted to Rank of Rear Admiral;
President, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study
1946-1950:
Member of the Atomic Energy Commission
1950-1953:
Financial Adviser to Rockefeller Family
1953-1958:
Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission
1958-1959:
Acting Secretary of Commerce (Recess Appointment)
1959:
Nomination for Secretary of Commerce Rejected by Senate

PORTRAITS:

RESOURCES:

President Eisenhower receives a report from Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, on the hydrogen bomb tests (Operation Castle) in the Pacific, March 30, 1954. (National Archives)

UVA Miller Center
Oral History (6/16/1971, Truman Library)
Papers (American Jewish Historical Society)
Wikipedia

MEDIA COVERAGE:

OBITUARIES (1/22/1974):
New York Times