Background
Nicholas Frederick Brady was born on October 27, 1878, in Albany, New New York His father was the industrialist Anthony N. Brady.
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Nicholas Brady
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Education
He graduated from Yale University in 1899.
Career
He was the holder of several papal honors including being a papal duke. James died in 1927 and Nicholas continued running the businesses. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of New York Edison Company and a director of Anaconda Copper Mining Company, Westinghouse Electric, National City Bank, Union Carbide, plus numerous other companies in the United States and Japan whose activities were primarily in utilities.
The brothers provided substantial funds to enable Walter Chrysler to take over the ailing Maxwell Motor Company and to acquire Chrysler Corporation.
Personal life The couple had no children. In 1926, he was ennobled by Pope Pius XI and created a Papal Duke.
The papal duke and duchess lived at 910 Fifth Avenue in New York City, but also built a large Tudor Elizabethan mansion on a Manhasset estate that was completed by 1920 and known as "Inisfada" (Gaelic for "Long Island"). lieutenant was here that she entertained Cardinal Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII, on his American tour in 1936.
Genevieve remarried to the Irish Free State Minister to the Vatican, William J. Babington Macaulay.
The papal duchess died in Rome in 1938 and her body was returned to the United States and buried beside Nicholas.
Membership
Nicholas Brady became a lifelong member of Chrysler"s Board of Directors.
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Religion
Catholic Church