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Charles Joseph Bonaparte ( June 9 , 1851 – June 28 , 1921 ) was a grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte (the youngest brother of the French emperor Napoleon I ), and a member of the United States Cabinet . Born in Baltimore, Maryland , he was the son of Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte ( 1805 - 1870 ) and Susan May Williams ( 1812 - 1881 ), from whom the American line of the Bonaparte family descended. After graduating from Harvard University and Harvard Law School , where he would later be appointed a university overseer, he practiced law in Baltimore and became prominent in municipal and national reform movements. On September 1 , 1875 , Bonaparte married Ellen Channing Day ( 1852 - 1924 ). The daughter of attorney Thomas Mills Day and Ellen Cornelia (Jones) Pomeroy. They had no children. He was a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners from 1902 to 1904 , chairman of the National Civil Service Reform League in 1904 and appointed a trustee of the Catholic University Of America . In 1905 , U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Bonaparte to his cabinet as United States Secretary Of The Navy . From 1906 until the end of President Roosevelt's administration he served as United States Attorney General . He was active in suits brought against the trusts and was largely responsible for breaking up the tobacco monopoly. In 1908 , Joseph founded the Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI). He was one of the founders, and for a time the president, of the National Municipal League . Bonaparte died in Bella Vista, Baltimore County, Maryland and is interred at Baltimore's Loudon Park Cemetery .
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