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Jesse Isidor Straus (June 25, 1872 – October 4, 1936) served as the American ambassador to France from 1933 to 1936.
Jesse Isidor Straus, 64, recently resigned as United States ambassador to France, died at 9:11 a.m. today at his home, 720 Park Ave., of pneumonia, which he contracted on Friday.
Jesse I. Straus. Macy (R. H.) and Company. 1919–1933. Industry: Retail. Era: 1910. While still a young man in his family’s company, Jesse Straus and his younger brother Percy were personally responsible for the erection of the famous Macy’s Store in Herald Square, New York City.
As a descendant of Isidor and Nathan Straus, Jesse I. Straus leveraged his family lineage to assume R.H. Macy & Co.’s presidency in 1938, guiding the retail giant through the uncertainty of World War II and the economic boom that followed.
Jun 25, 2017 · Jesse Isidor Straus. Businessman, US Diplomat. The son of Ida Straus and Congressman and Macy's Department Stores executive Isidor Straus, both of whom died on the RMS Titanic in 1912, he was born in New York City, New York and graduated from Harvard University in 1893.
Jesse Isidor Straus, diplomat, philanthropist and merchant, died at 9:11 A.M. yesterday at his home at 720 Park Avenue after a four-day illness of pneumonia. Mr. Straus's health had been...
The August 2004 issue of the Straus Historical Society's news-letter contained the first of a two-part biography of Jesse Isi-dor Straus. The biography continues in this issue, picking up with Jesse's appointment as head of the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (TERA) during the Great Depression by
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Jesse Isidor Straus was a merchant, public servant and philanthropist. And in each he excelled. In 1931, Jesse was appointed as head of New York State Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (T.E.R.A.). He left that position in 1932 after realizing it had become a full time position.
Apr 6, 1970 · Mrs. Irma Nathan Straus, whose husband, Jesse I. Straus, was Ambassador to France from 1933 to 1936, died at her Park Avenue home yesterday. She was 94 years old.
