Sunday, October 13, 2024

Do YOU Know About This Great Italian American?

Today we celebrate Charles Joseph Bonaparte, born in Baltimore, Md., in 1851.

Bonaparte was not only a lawyer and political activist but also the U.S. Attorney General during Theodore Roosevelt’s administration, the first ever Italian American appointed to a cabinet position.

He built the Navy into one of the strongest in the world. And, in 1908, he established a special investigative force under the Department of Justice that, by 1935, had been renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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