1. Charles Nagel was a United States politician and lawyer from St Louis, Missouri.
13 Facts About Charles Nagel
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Charles Nagel was Secretary of Commerce and Labor during President William Howard Taft's administration and was one of the key founders of the United States Chamber of Commerce.
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Charles Nagel moved to a boarding school in St Louis, Missouri, for high school and stayed to study law at Washington University School of Law.
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Charles Nagel furthered his education by traveling to Europe and learning political economy at the University of Berlin.
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Charles Nagel was a member of the firm Finkelnburg, Nagel and Kirby, and later of Nagel and Kirby.
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Charles Nagel was president of the St Louis city council from 1893 to 1897.
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Charles Nagel taught at St Louis Law School and was a member of the Republican National Committee.
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Charles Nagel was a corporate attorney for Adolphus Busch when President William Howard Taft chose him, in 1909, as Secretary of Commerce and Labor, a position he held until the end of the Taft administration in 1913.
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Charles Nagel was the last person to serve in the post before it was separated to two cabinet positions, Secretary of Commerce and Secretary of Labor.
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Charles Nagel was a founder of the United States Chamber of Commerce.
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Charles Nagel died in St Louis, Missouri on January 5,1940, and was interred there in Bellefontaine Cemetery.
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Charles Nagel was married twice: first, in 1876, to Fannie Brandeis, the sister of Louis Dembitz Brandeis, later a Supreme Court justice.
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Charles Nagel died in 1889 and he married Anne Shepley in 1895.