Charles Nagel

Charles Nagel ( born August 9, 1849 in Bernardo, Colorado County, Texas; † 5 January 1940 in St. Louis, Missouri) was an American lawyer and politician of the Republican Party, of the cabinet of U.S. President William Howard Taft belonged to the last trade and labor minister.

Professional history and public offices

A native of Texas nail attended boarding school in St. Louis and thereafter remained in Missouri to study at the Law School of Washington University law. There he made his degree in 1872. As a result, he traveled to Europe to retrain themselves; among others, he attended seminars in political economy at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

In 1873 he returned to St. Louis, where he was admitted to the bar in the state and began to practice as a lawyer. Politically, he was active from 1881, when he was elected to the House of Representatives from Missouri, where he remained until 1883. From 1893 to 1897 he was president of the city council of St. Louis; in 1893 he was also elected a judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri. From 1886 to 1910 he was also a lecturer at the St. Louis Law School; 1908-1912 he was a member of the Republican National Committee.

Cabinet minister

In the meantime, he had a job as a corporate lawyer started the brewery business Adolphus Busch, as he was appointed to the newly elected U.S. President Taft in March 1909 in his cabinet. During his four-year tenure, he directed the Ministry stronger than before to the needs of businessmen; He also expanded its under his supervision Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization. He was also one of the founders of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Nail difference in 1913 together with the ousted President Taft left the government; he was the last owner of his ministerial office before the Department of Commerce and Labor was divided into the Trade and the Ministry of Labour. After the end of his political career Charles Nagel again worked as a lawyer, where he negotiated among others, three cases before the Supreme Court, which also his brother Louis Brandeis belonged to this time as a judge. Nagel died in 1940.