US Ambassador Ottoman Empire Theodore Roosevelt Moose Party Progressive Anarchy

by Oscar S. Status, Litt.D., LL.D.

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.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } Under Four Administrations: From Cleveland to Taft Recollections of Oscar S. Status, Litt.D., LL.D. Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1922. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, index, 456 pages. Oscar S. Straus was an American statesman and diplomat, and one of the outstanding figures in American Jewry for half a century. Oscar Solomon Straus, who was honored by five American presidents, was twice member of the United States cabinet and was United States Ambassador to Turkey, the first Jew to hold this post. He was a colleague of President Roosevelt in the formation of the Progressive Party and in 1912 was the candidate of this party for governor of New York. He first served as United States Minister to the Ottoman Empire from 1887 to 1889 and again from 1898 to 1899. At the outbreak of the Philippine–American War in 1899,[4] Secretary of State John Hay asked Strauss to approach Sultan Abdul Hamid II to request that the Sultan write a letter to the Moro Sulu Muslims of the Sulu Sultanate telling them to submit to American suzerainty and American military rule.The Sulu sultanate agreed, with Straus writing that the "Sulu Mohammedans ... refused to join the insurrectionists and had placed themselves under the control of our army, thereby recognizing American sovereignty." President McKinley sent a personal letter of thanks to Straus and sa

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Year: 1922
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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