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Show NOMINATED FOR GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK Oscar Solomon Straus, who has been- nominated for governor of New York by the Progressives of that state, has the distinction of being the first Jew who ever became a member of the United States cabinet. In 1906 he was appointed secretary of commerce com-merce ..and labor by President Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt. : Mr. StraUs was born on December 23, 1850, and spent most of his boyhood boy-hood in Georgia. At the age of ten he was placed under the1 care of a private pri-vate tutor, and later was sent to Col- llngsworth institute. In 1865 Lazarua Straus, the father, suffered . business reverses and was compelled to move to -New York, taking the son with him. .- ' " ''Soon after the family had moved to New York Oscar Straus entered Columbia Co-lumbia grammar school, where he remained re-mained .for two years, going from there to Columbia college,, from which institution he was graduated in. 1871. M y Pit ihsCi'jWffearir!? ' 3 n V T'- - -"A Two years later' he graduated from Columbia Law school. Later he began the practice of law with James H. Hudson under the firm name of Hudson & Straus. Afterward the firm became Stern, Straus & Thompson. Mr. Straus was appointed minister ,to Turkey in 1887 by President Cleveland. His mission to that country was remarkably successful. In 18S9 he returned to America. In 1897 he was reappointed to the office of minister minis-ter to Turkey by President McKinley, which office he retained for three years.':- In 1902 President Roosevelt appointed him to fill the Vacancy in the permanent court of arbitration at The Hague caused by the death of ' ex-President Harrison.' ' " i-i . |