Background
Taussig, Charles William was born on August 9, 1896 in New York City. Son of Noah William and Constance (Goldsmith) Taussig.
Taussig, Charles William was born on August 9, 1896 in New York City. Son of Noah William and Constance (Goldsmith) Taussig.
Educated Stuyvesant High School, New York City.
Chairman board and president American Molasses Company. Chairman of the Board The Nulomoline Company, Sucrest Corporation. Chairman and president Boston Molasses Company.
President American Molasses Company of Louisiana, Applied Sugar Laboratories, Incorporated., American Molasses Tank Storage Corporation.
Director American Molasses Company of Maine, and American Molasses Company of North Carolina, Incorporated., and Nulomoline, Limited. (Montreal, Canada). Appointed by President Roosevelt, technical adviser during Washington conferences with foreign powers, 1933.
One of 6 original members of Roosevelt “Brain Trust”. Technical adviser to World Economic Conference, 1933.
Chairman National advisory committee, National Youth Administration, 1935-1943.
Member President's Advisory Council for Virgin Islands, 1934. Member commission on Dependent Areas, Department of State. Chairman United States Commission to Study Social and Economic Conditions in the British West Indies, 1940.
Appointed United States chairman Anglo-American Caribbean Commission (Department of State), 1942.
Appointed by President Roosevelt adviser to the United States delegation, United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, 1945. Advisory to Secretary of State on Caribbean Affairs, 1945.
Chairman, United States Section, Caribbean Commission, 1946. Special advisory, Secretary of State, 1947.
Member President's Advisory Council for Virgin Islands, 1934. Member commission on Dependent Areas, Department of State. Chairman United States Commission to Study Social and Economic Conditions in the British West Indies, 1940.
Member board trustees, Town Hall, Incorporated.
Served as radio electrician, United States Navy, World War I. Member Pan-American Society, Institute Radio Engineers.
Clubs: Radio of America, Advertising, Bay Shore Yacht, Town Hall, India House.
Married Ruth Adler, August 9, 1917. Children: Ruth Jean Pearsall, Patricia Annual.