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William Cox Redfield was born on June 18, 1858 in Albany, New York, the son of Charles Bailey and Mary Ann (Wallace) Redfield, and the grandson of William C. Redfield. The family moved to Pittsfield, Massachussets, in 1867.
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William Cox Redfield
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In Pittsfield, Massachussets William received his elementary and secondary school education.
Career
Obliged by financial adversity at an early age to earn a livelihood, he worked for a time in the Pittsfield post-office and as a salesman for a local paper company, and then sought employment in New York City in 1877. For a few years he was connected with R. Hoe & Company, manufacturers of printing presses, but withdrew in 1883. Soon afterward he associated himself with J. H. Williams & Company of Brooklyn, who made drop forgings; for the next thirty years he was engaged chiefly in the manufacture and exporting of machinery and other iron and steel products.
He became treasurer and later president of the Williams Company and had an important part in the direction of several other companies. In 1905, through the influence of Grover Cleveland, Redfield was elected to the board of the Equitable Life Assurance Society and served as a director until 1913. His participation in politics began in 1896 when he was chosen a delegate to the convention of the Gold Democrats at Indianapolis. In the autumn of that year he unsuccessfully sought election to Congress as a Gold Democrat.
In 1902 he was appointed commissioner of public works of Brooklyn in the administration of Seth Low, and for two years waged a vigorous campaign to enforce compliance with the law by the public utility corporations within the borough. Also he was able to terminate the "reign of the cobblestones" in Brooklyn and to institute the use of modern paving. One hundred miles of new paving were laid in the two years of his commissionership.
In 1910 he accepted a Democratic nomination for Congress and won by a substantial majority in the normally Republican fifth district.
In 1912 he formally announced his candidacy for the vice-presidential nomination of his party; failing to receive it and not wishing to accept a renomination for Congress, he devoted his efforts to the success of the national ticket.
Woodrow Wilson cheerfully acknowledged his indebtedness to Redfield's cogent tariff arguments, and in recognition of Redfield's practical knowledge of business affairs appointed him secretary of commerce in March 1913. Redfield entered upon his work with great enthusiasm and in the next six years reorganized and enlarged the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, instituted the commercial attaché service, strengthened the Bureau of Standards as a valuable adjunct of war work, and actively associated himself with the Council of National Defense and War Trade Board.
A resourceful and progressive administrator and a keen student of economic tendencies, Redfield proved a serviceable cabinet officer. It was with much reluctance that the President accepted his resignation on November 1, 1919. After his retirement Redfield engaged in banking and insurance business in New York City and Brooklyn, but he was also connected with numerous civic organizations and shared in various philanthropic enterprises in his community.
He died in New York City.
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His outstanding contribution during his term was a powerful speech in behalf of a bill for tariff reduction; over a million copies of his speech were printed and circulated in 1912 by the Democratic National Committee.
He was the author of The New Industrial Day (1912), With Congress and Cabinet (1924), Dependent America (1926), We and the World (1927); he also published an extended series of articles, "Glimpses of Our Government, " in the Saturday Evening Post, May 1924-January 1925.
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The New Industrial Day: A Book for Men Who Employ Men (Classic Reprint)
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The New Industrial Day
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The New Industrial Day: A Book for Men Who Employ Men
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The Code of Labor Laws of Soviet Russia: With an Answer to a Criticism by Mr. William C. Redfield
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The New Industrial Day: A Book for Men Who Employ Men - Primary Source Edition
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The New Industrial Day: A Book for Men Who Employ Men 1913
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The New Industrial Day: A Book for Men Who Employ Men (Classic Reprint)
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He married Elise Mercein Fuller on April 8, 1885. They had a son and a daughter.
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