Daniel Calhoun Roper

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Daniel Calhoun Roper

Daniel Calhoun Roper (April 1, 1867 – April 11, 1943) was a U.S. administrator, particularly under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1892-94. Born in 1867 in Marlboro County, South Carolina, he served as the Secretary of Commerce between 1933 and 1938 and as Ambassador to Canada in 1939. His father, John Wesley Roper, was a leader of the Scotch Boys of the Confederate Army. He attended Trinity University, which would later be renamed Duke University. He died in 1943 in Washington, D.C.. He published his autobiography entitled Fifty Years of Public Life in 1941 (Duke University Press).

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Preceded by:
Roy D. Chapin		 United States Secretary of Commerce
March 4, 1933 - December 23, 1938		 Succeeded by:
Harry Hopkins
Preceded by:
Norman Armour		 U.S. Ambassador to Canada
1939		 Succeeded by:
James H.R. Cromwell
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Secretaries of Commerce & Labor (1903–1913): Cortelyou | Metcalf | Straus | Nagel
Secretaries of Commerce (1913—): Redfield | Alexander | Hoover | Whiting | Lamont | Chapin | Roper | Hopkins | Jones | Wallace | Harriman | Sawyer | Weeks | Strauss | Mueller | Hodges | Connor | Trowbridge | Smith | Stans | Peterson | Dent | Morton | Richardson | Kreps | Klutznick | Baldrige | Verity | Mosbacher | Franklin | Brown | Kantor | Daley | Mineta | Evans | Gutierrez
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