Charles Bonaparte (Attorney General)

Charles Joseph Bonaparte ( June 9, 1851 in Baltimore, Maryland, † June 28, 1921 in Bella Vista, Baltimore County, Maryland ) was an American politician, who was the Cabinet of President Theodore Roosevelt as Secretary of the Navy and as Minister of Justice. He was a grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte, the youngest brother of the French Emperor Napoleon I.

Bonaparte was the son of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte (1805-1870) and Susan McWilliams (1812-1881), one of which stems from the American line of the Bonaparte family. After graduating at the Law School of Harvard University, he became a lawyer in Baltimore and engaged in municipal and national reform movements. On September 1, 1875, he married Ellen Channing ( 1852-1924 ); They had no children.

He was a member of the U.S. Indian affairs from 1902 to 1904, Chairman of the National Civil Service Reform League in 1904 and administrator of the Catholic University of America. 1905 President Roosevelt appointed Bonaparte, who belonged to the Republican Party, it was a Secretary of the Navy in his cabinet. From 1906 until the end of Roosevelt's presidency he was Minister of Justice ( Attorney General ). He was responsible for breaking many economic cartels, such as the tobacco monopoly. Joseph Bonaparte founded in 1908, the Bureau of Investigation ( BOI), the later the FBI. He was a founder and the temporary president of the National Municipal League.