Attorney General: Charles J. Bonaparte
Charles Joseph Bonaparte was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 9, 1851. He graduated from Harvard in 1871 and from Harvard Law School in 1874 and was subsequently admitted to the Maryland bar. Bonaparte was appointed a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners in 1902. For several years, he was a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard and was one of the organizers and president of the National Municipal League. He also served for a time as chairman of the Council of National Civil Service Reform League. Bonaparte was a presidential elector for Maryland on the Republican ticket in 1904. President Theodore Roosevelt appointed him Secretary of the Navy in July 1905.
On December 17, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Bonaparte as Attorney General of the United States, an office which he held until March 4, 1909. Bonaparte died at his estate, Bella Vista, near Baltimore, Maryland, on June 28, 1921.
Cecile Smith de Wentworth was born in New York in 1853 and studied in Paris. She received several international medals for her portraits and was decorated Grand Commander of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher by Pope Leo XIII. Wentworth painted many important personages, including Theodore Roosevelt, John J. Pershing, and Pope Leo XIII. She died in Nice, France, in 1933.