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1. STRAUS_190528_01.JPG: Our liberty of worship is not a concession nor a privilege but an inherent right
2. STRAUS_190528_35.JPG: This monument was erected by public subscription in accordance with the joint resolution of Congress on December 16, 1927 signed by President Coolidge March 2, 1929 in memory of 1850 Oscar S. Straus 1926 Author: "Origin of Republican Form of Government" 1885 "Roger Williams -- Pioneer of Religious Liberty" 1894 "Under Four Administrations" 1922 Diplomat: Minister of Turkey 1887-1888 1898-1900 Ambassador to Turkey 1909-1910 Statesman: Secretary of Commerce and Labor 1906-1909 Member of the Hague Court of Arbitration 1902-1926 The Oscar S. Straus Memorial Association, Inc. October 1947 -- Oscar Straus (politician) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oscar Solomon Straus (December 23, 1850 – May 3, 1926) was United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1906 to 1909. Straus was the first Jewish United States Cabinet Secretary. Life and career He was born in Otterberg, Germany. He emigrated with his parents to the United States, and settled in Talbotton, Georgia. At the close of the Civil War he moved to New York City where he graduated from Columbia College in 1871 and Columbia Law School in 1873. He practised law until 1881, and then became a merchant, retaining his interest in literature. He first served as United States Minister to the Ottoman Empire from 1887 to 1889 and again from 1898 to 1899. John Hay, the American Secretary of State, asked the Jewish American ambassador to Ottoman Turkey, Oscar Straus in 1889 to approach Sultan Abdul Hamid II to request that the Sultan write a letter to the Moro Sulu Muslims of the Sulu Sultanate in the Philippines telling them to submit to American suzerainty and American military rule, the Sultan obliged them and wrote the letter which was sent to Sulu via Mecca where 2 Sulu chiefs brought it home to Sulu and it was successful, since the Sulu Mohammedans . . . refused to join the insurrectionists and had placed themselves under the control of our army, thereby recognizing American sovereignty. The Ottoman Sultan used his position as caliph to order the Sulu Sultan not to resist and not fight the Americans when they came subjected to American control. President McKinley did not mention Turkey's role in the pacification of the Sulu Moros in his address to the first session of the Fifty-sixth Congress in December 1899 since the agreement with the Sultan of Sulu was not submitted to the Senate until December 18. Despite Sultan Abdulhamid's "pan-Islamic" ideology, he readily acceded to Oscar S. Straus' request for help in telling the Sulu Muslims to not resist America since he felt no need to cause hostilities between the West and Muslims. Collaboration between the American military and Sulu sultanate was due to the Sulu Sultan being persuaded by the Ottoman Sultan. John P. Finley wrote that: After due consideration of these facts, the Sultan, as Caliph caused a message to be sent to the Mohammedans of the Philippine Islands forbidding them to enter into any hostilities against the Americans, inasmuch as no interference with their religion would be allowed under American rule. As the Moros have never asked more than that, it is not surprising, that they refused all overtures made, by Aguinaldo's agents, at the time of the Filipino insurrection. President McKinley sent a personal letter of thanks to Mr. Straus for the excellent work he had done, and said, its accomplishment had saved the United States at least twenty thousand troops in the field. If the reader will pause to consider what this means in men and also the millions in money, he will appreciate this wonderful piece of diplomacy, in averting a holy war. Abdulhamid in his position as Caliph was approached by the Americans to help them deal with Muslims during their war in the Philippines and the Muslim people of the area obeyed the order to help the Americans which was sent by Abdulhamid. The Moro Rebellion then broke out in 1904 with war raging between the Americans and Moro Muslims and atrocities committed against Moro Muslim women and children such as the Moro Crater Massacre. On January 14, 1902, he was named a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague to fill the place left vacant by the death of ex-President Benjamin Harrison. In December 1906, Straus became the United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor under President Theodore Roosevelt. This position also placed him in charge of the United States Bureau of Immigration. During his tenure, Straus ordered immigration inspectors to work closely with local police and the United States Secret Service to find, arrest and deport immigrants with Anarchist political beliefs under the terms of the Anarchist Exclusion Act. Straus left the Commerce Department in 1909 when William Howard Taft became president and became U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire until 1910. In 1912, he ran unsuccessfully for Governor of New York on the Progressive and Independence League tickets. In 1915, he became chairman of the public service commission of New York State. He was president of the American Jewish Historical Society. He is buried at Beth El Cemetery in Ridgewood, New York. Family The Straus family had several influential members including Straus's grandson Roger W. Straus, Jr., who started the publishing company of Farrar, Straus and Giroux; his brother, Isidor Straus, who perished aboard the RMS Titanic in 1912, served as a representative from New York City's 15th District, and was co-owner of the department store R. H. Macy & Co. along with another brother Nathan; and nephew Jesse Isidor Straus, confidant of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ambassador to France from 1933 to 1936. Legacy Washington, D.C., commemorates the achievements of this famous Jewish-German-American statesman in the Oscar Straus Memorial.
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4. STRAUS_190528_71.JPG: A.A. Weinman Sc. -- Adolph Alexander Weinman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Adolph Alexander Weinman (December 11, 1870 – August 8, 1952) was a German-born American sculptor and architectural sculptor. Life Born in Durmersheim, near Karlsruhe, Germany, Weinman arrived in the United States at the age of 14. At the age of 15, he attended evening classes at Cooper Union and later studied at the Art Students League of New York with sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Philip Martiny. He later served as an assistant to Charles Niehaus, Olin Warner, and Daniel Chester French. Weinman opened his own studio in 1904. Although Weinman is now best remembered as a medalist, when he once was introduced as such he vehemently denied being one and said that he was an architectural sculptor. His steadiest income was derived from the sale of small bronze reproductions of his larger works, such as Descending Night, originally commissioned for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. Weinman was a member of the National Sculpture Society and served as its president from 1927 to 1930. He served on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1929 to 1933. He was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the National Academy of Design, and the New York City Art Commission, among other organizations. Weinman died in Port Chester, New York, on August 8, 1952. Following a mass at Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, he was buried at Calvary Cemetery in Queens. Weinman's papers are at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. His son Robert Weinman was also a sculptor. Work Despite his objections, Weinman is still best remembered as the designer of the Walking Liberty Half Dollar (a design now used for the obverse of the American Silver Eagle one-ounce bullion coin) and the "Mercury" dime along with various medals for the Armed Services of the United States. Among these are the identical reverses of the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, and the American Campaign Medal. Weinman was one of many sculptors and artists who employed Audrey Munson as a model. As an architectural sculptor, Weinman's work can be found on the Wisconsin, Missouri, and Louisiana state capitol buildings. He became the sculptor of choice for the architectural firm McKim, Mead, and White and designed sculpture for their Manhattan Municipal Building, Madison Square Presbyterian Church (demolished), Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument, and the since-demolished Pennsylvania Railroad Station, all in New York City. A photograph of one of his angels, Day, in a landfill in New Jersey is one of the saddest reminders of the destruction of Penn Station in 1963, but two of his eagles were retained as trophies outside the entrance to the new subterranean Penn Station. Elsewhere he created the dramatic frieze on the Elks National Veterans Memorial in Chicago and executed sculpture for the Post Office Department Building, the Jefferson Memorial, and the interior of the U.S. Supreme Court, all in Washington, D.C. Weinman's non-architectural works include the Macomb and the Maybury monuments in Detroit. Another example of his non-architectural work is his Abraham Lincoln Statue (Kentucky) located in the center of Hodgenville, Kentucky. Weinman was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the summer of 1949. Weinman's works are mostly executed in a lyrical neoclassical style. His figures typically wear classical drapery, but there is a fluidity found in his work that is a harbinger of the Art Deco style that was to follow him. His bronze statuette The Nude Golfer epitomizes this style. This work evokes classical sculpture in its attention to anatomy and movement and the nude status of the athlete while the subject, a modern golfer, provides a modern twist. Weinman also taught; among his pupils was Eleanor Mary Mellon. Selected works Sculpture * General Alexander Macomb (1906–1908), Detroit, Michigan. * Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument (1909), Wyman Park, Baltimore, Maryland. * Abraham Lincoln (1909), Hodgenville, Kentucky. A replica of this is at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. * Alexander Johnston Cassatt, (1910), Pennsylvania Station, New York City. * Abraham Lincoln (1911), Kentucky State Capitol, Frankfort, Kentucky. * William Cotter Maybury Memorial (1912), Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Michigan. * Rising Sun (1914–15) (model, Audrey Munson), Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. * Descending Night (1914–15), Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. * Samuel Rea (1926), Pennsylvania Station, New York City. * Fountain of the Centaurs (ca. 1926), Missouri State Capitol, Jefferson City, Missouri. * Pair of Lions (1929–30), Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. * Dewitt Clinton (1941) and Alexander Hamilton (1941), Museum of the City of New York, New York City. * Riders of the Dawn (ca. 1942), Brookgreen Gardens, Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina. * General Alexander Macomb (1906–1908), Detroit, Michigan * Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument (1909), Wyman Park, Baltimore, Maryland * Abraham Lincoln (1909), Hodgenville, Kentucky * Alexander Johnston Cassatt (1910), Pennsylvania Station, New York City * William Cotter Maybury Memorial (1912), Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Michigan * Civic Fame (1913), atop Manhattan Municipal Building, New York City * Descending Night (1914–15), Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco * Samuel Rea (1926), Pennsylvania Station, New York City. * Fountain of the Centaurs (ca. 1926), Missouri State Capitol, Jefferson City, Missouri * Fountain of the Centaurs, detail (ca. 1926), Missouri State Capitol, Jefferson City, Missouri * Riders of the Dawn (ca. 1942), Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina Architectural sculpture * Architectural sculpture (1903–04), Pennsylvania Station, McKim, Mead and White, architects, (demolished 1964). Salvaged pieces of statuary survive in multiple locations. * Architectural sculpture (1904–1906), Madison Square Presbyterian Church, New York City, McKim, Mead and White, architects, (demolished 1919). * Architectural sculpture (1908), Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument, Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, New York City, McKim, Mead and White, architects. * Masonic Sphinxes: Power and Wisdom (1911–1915), House of the Temple, Washington, D.C., John Russell Pope, architect. * Architectural sculpture (1913–1915), Manhattan Municipal Building, New York City, McKim, Mead and White, architects. * Bronze doors (1921–1923), American Academy of Arts and Letters administration building, West 155th Street, Audubon Terrace, Manhattan, New York City. * Architectural sculpture (1924–1926), Elks National Veterans Memorial, Chicago, Illinois. * Architectural sculpture: South Pediment (ca. 1926), Missouri State Capitol, Jefferson City, Missouri. * Architectural sculpture: Destiny Pediment (1935), National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. * Drafting the Declaration of Independence (1939–1943), pedimental sculpture honoring the Committee of Five on the Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C. * Pennsylvania Station, New York City (1903–04, demolished 1964) * Eagle Scout Memorial Fountain (1968), Kansas City, Missouri. Salvaged pieces from Pennsylvania Station, New York City * Eagle, National Zoo, Washington, D.C. Salvaged from Pennsylvania Station, New York City * Eagle (1908), one of four that decorated the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument, Brooklyn, New York City * Wisdom Sphinx (1911–1915), House of the Temple, Washington, D.C. * Detail, bronze doors, American Academy of Arts and Letters West 155th Street entrance, (1921–1923), New York City * Spandrel figure (1923), First National Bank Building, Davenport, Iowa * The Glory of Peace Frieze (1924–1926), Elks National Veterans Memorial, Chicago, Illinois * Destiny Pediment (1935), National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. * Drafting the Declaration of Independence Pediment (1939–1943), Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C. U.S. coins and medals * Mercury dime (1916–1945). More than 2 billion Mercury dimes were minted before it was replaced by the Roosevelt dime in 1946. The design is now used as the obverse of the American Palladium Eagle coin, which has been produced since 2017. * Walking Liberty half dollar (1916–1947). Replaced by the Franklin half dollar (1948). Weinman's carving is now used as the obverse of the American Silver Eagle coin, which has been produced since 1986. * J. Sanford Saltus Medal Award – awarded by the American Numismatic Society. Weinman was the second recipient of this medal.
Wikipedia Description: Oscar Straus Memorial
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Oscar S. Straus Memorial in Washington, D.C., commemorates the accomplishments of the first Jew to serve in the cabinet of a U.S. president. Oscar Solomon Straus was Secretary of Commerce and Labor under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1906 to 1909. The memorial is a marble fountain located in the Federal Triangle on 14th Street between Pennsylvania Avenue and Constitution Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C.. It is located in front of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center.

The fountain was designed by Adolph Alexander Weinman, funded with a public subscription beginning in 1929, and dedicated on October 26, 1947. In the center of the memorial is the massive fountain with the inscription "statesman, author, diplomat" and to each side are two groups of statues, one called Justice (to symbolize the religious freedom which allowed a Jew to serve in such a position of authority) and the other Reason (to symbolize the capitalism and labor efforts put forth by Straus).

It was rededicated on October 26, 1998.
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