Note: This is just one of1,325 family groupings listed onThe Political Graveyard web site.These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. These groupings — even thenames of the groupings,and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,not the choices of any historian or genealogist. | | Charles Nagel (1849-1940) — ofSt.Louis, Mo.Born in Bernardo,ColoradoCounty, Tex.,August9, 1849.Republican.Lawyer;member ofMissouristate house of representatives, 1881-83; member ofRepublicanNational Committee from Missouri, 1908-12;U.S.Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 1909-13; delegate to RepublicanNational Convention from Missouri,1932.Germanancestry.Died, from acerebralembolism while suffering fromchronicmyocarditis, inSt.Louis, Mo.,January5, 1940 (age90 years, 149days).Cremated;ashes interred atBellefontaineCemetery, St. Louis, Mo. | | Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) — also known asLouis D. Brandeis — of Dedham,NorfolkCounty, Mass.Born in Louisville,JeffersonCounty, Ky.,November13, 1856.Lawyer;law clerk to JusticeHoraceGray, 1879-80;AssociateJustice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1916-39; took senior status 1939.Jewish.Died inWashington,D.C.,October5, 1941 (age84 years, 326days).Cremated;ashes interred atUniversityof Louisville Law School, Louisville, Ky.| |  Relatives: Sonof Adolph Brandeis and Fredericka (Dembitz) Brandeis; brother ofFannie Brandeis (who marriedCharlesNagel) and Alfred Brandeis (brother-in-law ofWalterM. Taussig); married,March23, 1891, to Alice Goldmark. | | |  | Political family:Taussig-Brandeisfamily of St. Louis, Missouri. | | |  | Cross-reference:DeanAcheson —JamesM. Landis —CalvertMagruder | | |  | BrandeisUniversity,inWaltham,Massachusetts, isnamed forhim. — The Louis D. BrandeisSchoolof Law, inLouisville,Kentucky, isnamed forhim. | | |  | See alsofederaljudicial profile —Wikipediaarticle —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial | | |  | Books about Louis D. Brandeis: Lewis J.Paper,Brandeis:An Intimate Biography of One of America's Truly Great Supreme CourtJustices — Stephen W. Baskerville,OfLaws and Limitations : An Intellectual Portrait of Louis DembitzBrandeis — Philippa Strum,LouisD. Brandeis: Justice for the People — Robert A. Burt,TwoJewish Justices: Outcasts in the Promised Land |
| | Frank William Taussig (1859-1940) — also known asFrank W. Taussig;"The AmericanMarshall" —Born inSt.Louis, Mo.,December28, 1859.Universityprofessor;economist;chair, U.S. Tariff Commission, 1917-19.Member,AmericanEconomic Association;PhiBeta Kappa;AlphaDelta Phi.Died in Cambridge,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,November11, 1940 (age80 years, 319days).Interment atMt.Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. | | Walter M. Taussig (1862-1923) — of Yonkers,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.Born inSt.Louis, Mo.,June 10,1862.Democrat. President, Wiesbuch & Hilger,hardwareexporters; vice-president, American Chain Company; president,Challenge Cutlery Company;mayorof Yonkers, N.Y., 1922-23; defeated, 1923; died in office 1923.Shothimselfin the head, in the garage of his home, and died forty minutes later,in St. John'sHospital,Yonkers,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.,November21, 1923 (age61 years, 164days).Burial location unknown.
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