George Bruce Cortelyou was an American Cabinet secretary of the early twentieth century.
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27 Facts About George Cortelyou
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George Cortelyou held various positions in the presidential administrations of Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt.
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George Cortelyou left that position in 1904 to become the Chairman of the Republican National Committee, and starting in 1905 he served as the Postmaster General.
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George Cortelyou left both of those positions to become the United States Secretary of the Treasury in 1907.
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George Cortelyou was born in New York City to Rose and Peter Crolius George Cortelyou, Jr.
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George Cortelyou was part of an old New Netherland family whose immigrant ancestor, Jacques Cortelyou, arrived in 1652.
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George Cortelyou was educated at public schools in Brooklyn, the Nazareth Hall Military Academy in Pennsylvania, and the Hempstead Institute on Long Island.
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At 20, George Cortelyou received a BA degree from Westfield Normal School, now Westfield State University, a teacher's college in Westfield, Massachusetts.
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George Cortelyou graduated from the law schools of George Washington University and Georgetown University.
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George Cortelyou was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity while at George Washington University.
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George Cortelyou married the former Lily Morris Hinds on September 15,1888, with whom he had five children.
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George Cortelyou was working on improvements in office efficiency in 1901, when President McKinley was assassinated.
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George Cortelyou developed procedures and rules that guided White House protocol and established processes for which there had been only personal prerogative.
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George Cortelyou is credited with establishing an improved line of communication between the President's office and the press; he provided reporters with their own workspace, briefed journalists on notable news and handed out press releases.
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George Cortelyou is credited with instituting the first systematic gathering of press commentary for a sitting president's perusal.
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George Cortelyou selected items objectively, a practice that would not be consistently followed by his successors.
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George Cortelyou served as the first Secretary of Commerce and Labor, from February 18,1903, to June 30,1904.
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George Cortelyou served as Postmaster General from March 6,1905, to January 14,1907, and was the Secretary of the Treasury, all under Theodore Roosevelt.
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From 1904 through 1907, George Cortelyou served as Chairman of the Republican National Committee, working for the successful re-election of Theodore Roosevelt.
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George Cortelyou was made an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity on April 9,1903.
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George Cortelyou had attended the New England Conservatory of Music, where the fraternity was founded.
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George Cortelyou served as the Secretary of the Treasury, from March 4,1907, to March 7,1909.
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George Cortelyou eased the crisis by depositing large amounts of government funds in national banks and buying government bonds.
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George Cortelyou returned to private enterprise as the president of the Consolidated Gas Company, later known as the Consolidated Edison.
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George Cortelyou was one of the chairmen of the Con Edison Energy Museum, which is closed.
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George Cortelyou lived at his home "Harbor Lights" in Halesite, Long Island, until his death in October 1940.
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George Cortelyou is buried at the Memorial Cemetery of St John's Church in Cold Spring Harbor, New York.
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