Robert Mosbacher
Robert Adam Mosbacher ( born March 11, 1927 in Mount Vernon, New York, † January 24, 2010 in Houston, Texas) was an American businessman and politician of the Republican Party.
Biography
After attending the Choate School in White Plains Mosbacher studied business administration at the Washington and Lee University and graduated in 1947 with a Bachelor of Business Administration ( BBA ) from. The following year he moved to Houston, where he independently made and a highly successful oil and gas company founded, which was active both in the U.S. and in the international market and ultimately made him a multimillionaire.
In the early 1960s he began to engage in politics on the part of the Republican Party and worked as a fundraiser for several Republican candidates in southeast Texas. In 1968 he was manager of the campaign of presidential candidate Richard Nixon in Harris County and thus also in Houston.
In the presidential election campaign of George Bush sr. 1988 he was its chief fundraiser and had thus by the fund raising significant influence on the success of the campaign. After the swearing-in ceremony for President Bush appointed him on 31 January 1989 as Minister of Commerce ( Commerce Secretary ) in his cabinet. During his last until January 15, 1992 tenure Mosbacher was instrumental in calling for a North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA), which was founded ultimately on 1 January 1994 under Bush's successor Bill Clinton. Successor as Minister of Commerce was Barbara Franklin.
Last time was Mosbacher 2008 Chairman of the election campaign of the unsuccessful Republican candidate John McCain in the presidential election.
When, after a long illness Mosbacher died of pancreatic tumor, ex-President George Bush honored him sr, who was also his longtime close friend, as follows.:
"He was an honorable and first-class business man and perhaps the most astute traders I ever knew. Together we took a trip in part, led to the presidency, to the summit of American politics, and there we worked together to help to America, the world around us to embrace more and against this measure ourselves in the newly released global markets, which made possible the waning Cold War. No doubt you will remember him as one of the most successful trade minister in the history of our nation. "
The director and filmmaker Dee Mosbacher is his daughter.
Mosbacher was also a successful yachtsman.