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   Charles Edison (August 3, 1890 – July 31, 1969) was an American politician. He was the Assistant and then United States Secretary of the Navy, and served as the 42nd governor of New Jersey. Commonly known as "Lord Edison", he was a son of Thomas Edison and Mina Miller Edison .

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3. www.thomasedison.org › the-edison-familyThe Edison Family | Thomas Edison

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   Learn about the family of Thomas Edison, the famous inventor and entrepreneur. The web page does not mention Charles Edison, who was the son of Thomas's second wife Mina and a politician and inventor himself.

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   Ford reportedly convinced Charles Edison to seal a test tube of air in the inventor's room shortly after his death, as a memento. A plaster death mask and casts of Edison's hands were also made. Mina died in 1947. Marriages and children

5. www.charlesedisonfund.org › charles-edisonCharles Edison Biography | Charles Edison Fund

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   A son of Thomas Alva Edison, Charles Edison was Secretary of the Navy, Governor of New Jersey and a nationally recognized corporate executive. He died July 31, 1969, three days shy of his seventy-ninth birthday.

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   Charles Edison. NPS Photo. Charles is the best known of the Edison children because of his second career, in public service. In the mid-1930s he served in the cabinet of President Franklin Roosevelt--first as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, then as Acting Secretary.

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   Charles Edison was born August 3, 1890, in West Orange, New Jersey, the son of the inventor Thomas Alva Edison. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1909 to 1913 and received a degree in electrical engineering.

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   When did Charles Edison become a member of the New Jersey Society?

   • In 1924, Edison joined the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He was assigned national member number 39,292 and state society number 2,894. In 1948, he established a charitable foundation, originally called "The Brook Foundation", now the Charles Edison Fund.

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   Who was Charles Edison?

   • Commonly known as "Lord Edison", he was a son of Thomas Edison and Mina Miller Edison . Charles Edison was born on August 3, 1890, at Glenmont, the Edison family home in West Orange, New Jersey. He was Thomas Edison's fifth child and second from his marriage to Mina Miller. He graduated from the Hotchkiss School in 1909.

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   How did Charles Edison become famous?

   • Edison began his career (after a brief stint as a poet) at the Edison Illuminating Company, soon rising through the ranks to become manager of the Edison Phonograph Company and the Edison Storage Battery Company. In 1916, Charles Edison became chairman of all the related Edison industries, assuming the presidency of Thomas A. Edison, Inc., in 1926.

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   Who was Theodore Edison?

   • Theodore Edison was born at Glenmont on July 10, 1898. He was named after a beloved brother of Mina who had just died in the Spanish-American War. As a child, he was called “the little laboratory assistant” by the family. He showed an early interest in science and performed many experiments at Glenmont.

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   What did Thomas Edison do for a living?

   • This appears to have been his only enrollment in courses at an institution of higher learning. Thomas Edison began his career as a news butcher, selling newspapers, candy, and vegetables on trains running from Port Huron to Detroit.

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   When did Charles Edison resign?

   • On January 18, 1937, President Roosevelt appointed Charles Edison as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, then as Secretary on January 2, 1940, Claude A. Swanson having died several months previously. Edison himself only kept the job until June 24, resigning to run for Governor of New Jersey.

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9. artsandculture.google.com › entity › charles-edisonCharles Edison — Google Arts & Culture

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   Charles Edison was an American politician, businessman, inventor and animal behaviorist. He was the Assistant and then United States Secretary of the Navy, and served as the 42nd...