Daniel C. Roper
Daniel Roper | |
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United States Ambassador to Canada | |
| In office May 19, 1939 – August 20, 1939 | |
| President | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | Norman Armour |
| Succeeded by | James H. R. Cromwell |
| 7th United States Secretary of Commerce | |
| In office March 4, 1933 – December 23, 1938 | |
| President | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | Roy D. Chapin |
| Succeeded by | Harry Hopkins |
| 21st Commissioner of Internal Revenue | |
| In office September 26, 1917 – March 31, 1920 | |
| President | Woodrow Wilson |
| Preceded by | William H. Osborn |
| Succeeded by | William M. Williams |
| Vice Chairman of the United States Tariff Commission | |
| In office March 22, 1917 – September 25, 1917 | |
| Preceded by | position established |
| Succeeded by | Thomas W. Page[1] |
| Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from Marlboro County | |
| In office November 22, 1892 – November 27, 1894 | |
| Preceded by | multi-member district |
| Succeeded by | multi-member district |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Daniel Calhoun Roper April 1, 1867 near Bennettsville, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | April 11, 1943 (aged 76) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse |
Lou McKenzie (m. 1889) |
| Children | 7, including John |
| Education | Wofford College Duke University (BA) National University (LLB) |
Daniel Calhoun Roper (April 1, 1867 – April 11, 1943) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the seventh
Biography
Daniel Calhoun Roper was born near
On December 25, 1889, Roper married Lou McKenzie. They had seven children: Margaret May, James Hunter, Daniel Calhoun Jr., Grace Henrietta, John Wesley Roper II (future Vice admiral), Harry McKenzie (future Major general) and Richard Frederick Roper.
Roper taught school for four years and then, in 1892 at the age of 25, was elected to the
Immediately following and through 1916, he served as first assistant postmaster general, and was chairman of
Secretary of Commerce
Roper was the
Later career
Roper was the
Roper's
In 1941, and he published his autobiography entitled Fifty Years of Public Life.
He died on April 11, 1943, at his home in Washington, D.C., at the age of 76 from leukemia.[3] Roper was interred at the Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C. In 1966, the District of Columbia Public School system named a middle school in Deanwood for him, but in 1997 they renamed it for Ronald Brown, who was also a Commerce Secretary.[4] That school was closed in 2013 but reopened as Ron Brown College Preparatory High School in 2016.[5][6]
References
- ^ Journal of the executive proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America v.52:1
- ^ William Galbraith (1989). "Fiftieth Anniversary of the 1939 Royal Visit". Canadian Parliamentary Review. Vol. 12, no. 3. Archived from the original on December 5, 2012. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
- ^ "Daniel C. Roper Dies in Capital". The Daily Mail. Hagerstown, Maryland. April 12, 1943. Retrieved May 23, 2016.
- ^ Ronald H. Brown Building Designation Act of 1997 http://www.openlims.org/public/L12-84.pdf Archived 2016-08-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ron Brown Middle School 2013 scorecard http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/pdf/ron-brown2012.pdf
- ^ Helm, Joe (August 22, 2016). "The country's newest all-boys public high school opens its doors". Retrieved June 1, 2017.
External links
- Works by or about Daniel C. Roper at Internet Archive
- Works by Daniel C. Roper at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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