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STRAUS, Oscar S: Memorial Fountain at the Ronald Reagan Bldg in Washington, D.C.
Oscar Solomon Straus (December 23, 1850 – May 3, 1926) was United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1906 to 1909. Straus was the first Jew to serve as a Presidential Cabinet Secretary. He left the Commerce Department in 1909 when William Howard Taft became president and became U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire until 1910. In 1912, he ran unsuccessfully for Governor of New York. Source: WikipediaBronze, Marble by Adolph Alexander Weinman
Address: 14th St between Pennsylvania & Constitution Aves NW Nearest Metro: Federal Triangle (Orange - Blue)
Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog: Control number 66400139 (dcMem ID #644)
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The Names of Washington D.C. (p40)
The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington D.C. (D30/p174)
'Who is That Man Anyway?' on Straus (106)
Wikipedia article on Straus
