Roosevelt Creates Bureau of Corporations and Department of Commerce and Labor
On February 14, 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Act to Establish the Department of Commerce and Labor, creating the ninth cabinet-level executive department and establishing the Bureau of Corporations as an investigatory agency within it. The Bureau was specifically designed to study …
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U.S. Congress
George B. Cortelyou
James Rudolph Garfield
Bureau of Corporations
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