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Oscar Straus

Austria • 1870-03-06 – 1954-01-11

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Biography

Oscar Solomon Straus (December 23, 1850 – May 3, 1926) was an American politician and diplomat. He served as United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1906 to 1909. He was the first Jewish United States Cabinet Secretary. Straus also served in four presidential administrations as America's representative to the Ottoman Empire and ran for Governor of New York in 1912 as the candidate of then-former president Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive "Bull Moose" Party, in tandem with Roosevelt's own unsuccessful run for a nonconsecutive third term as president that same year.

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Discography

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Credited work

1,676 releases · 429 albums · active 1950–2022

  • Performance · 1,819
  • Other credits · 168

Studios: Webster Hall · Théâtre National De La Danse Et De L'Image, Chateauvallon · Sofiensaal · Schubert-Saal, Wiener Konzerthaus

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