Daniel C. Roper

Daniel Calhoun Roper ( born April 1, 1867 Marlboro County, South Carolina, † April 11, 1943 in Washington DC ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, who belonged to the cabinet of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt as Trade Minister.

Daniel Roper, whose father during the Civil War, an infantry regiment from North Carolina (Scotch Boys) had led, made in 1888 his degree at Trinity College, which later became Duke University. In 1901 he received his Bachelor of Laws degree from the National University in La Jolla. Since 1889 he was married to Lou McKenzie, who brought two daughters and five sons.

Politically, Roper operated for the first time in 1892 as a deputy in the House of Representatives from South Carolina, where he remained until 1894. In the following decades, he embarked on a career as an official. Initially he worked from 1893 to 1897 for the Senate Committee on International Trade ( Committee on Interstate Commerce ), he was employed from 1900 to 1910 in the United States Census Bureau. From 1911 to 1913 he was finally dealt with the House Committee on Ways and Means, a committee of the House of Representatives.

He then became deputy in the new U.S. government under Woodrow Wilson Postmaster General; In 1916, he headed then Wilson's successful re-election campaign. 1917 Roper was first chairman of the Federal Customs Commission, before he served until 1920 as head of the Federal IRS.

After the Democratic victory in 1932 Roper came on March 4, 1933, the Office of the U.S. Trade Minister, a position he held until December 23, 1938. During this time he founded, among others, the Business Advisory Council, a committee that advised the president on economic policy issues. After he resigned from the Cabinet Roosevelt, Roper was appointed as successor to Norman Armour to the United States Ambassador to Canada the following year. His credentials was founded by King George VI. personally taken delivery on 17 May 1939 It was his first official act as head of state on Canadian soil.

1941 Daniel Roper published his autobiography, entitled Fifty Years of Public Life. Two years later, he died in Washington.

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