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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Charles_EdisonCharles Edison - Wikipedia

    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 the inventor Thomas Alva Edison and Mina Miller Edison .

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Thomas_EdisonThomas Edison - Wikipedia

    Charles Edison (1890–1969), Governor of New Jersey (1941–1944), who took over his father's company and experimental laboratories upon his father's death. [140]

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

    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– Acting Secretary of the navy.

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

    Who was Charles Edison? 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.

  5. www.nps.gov › edis › learnCharles Edison - U.S. National Park Service

    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.

  6. www.history.navy.mil › browse-by-topic › peopleCharles Edison - NHHC

    Charles Edison was born 3 August 1890 in West Orange, New Jersey. He was the son of the inventor Thomas Edison. In 1909, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and...

  7. millercenter.org › president › fdrooseveltCharles Edison (1940) | Miller Center

    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.

  8. www.loc.gov › resource › hecEdison takes oath as Secretary of Navy. Washington, D.C., Jan. 2...

    Charles Edison, son of the late inventor, Thomas Edison, was today sworn in as the 46th Secretary of the Navy to succeed the late Secretary Claude A. Swanson. Edison is the second man to become Secretary of the Navy after serving as Assistant Secretary, the other was Truman Newberry, who became Secretary in December, 1908.

  9. charlesedisonfund-cef.org › charles-edisoncharlesedisonfund-cef.org

    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.

  10. uspresidentialhistory.com › charles-edisonCHARLES EDISON – U.S. PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY

    HIGHLIGHTS: 1937-1940: Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1939-1940: Acting Secretary of the Navy, U.S. Secretary of the Navy 1941-1944: Governor of New Jersey PORTRAITS: National Park Service Photo U.S. Navy Portrait RESOURCES: 8/28/1939: L to r: President Franklin Roosevelt; Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations; and Charles Edison, Acting Secretary of the Navy (Library of Congress) U.S. Navy UVA Miller Center Wikipedia