of Public Life. He died on April 11, 1943, at his home in Washington, D.C., at the age of 76 from leukemia. Roper was interred at the Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C. In 1966, the District of Columbia Public School system named a middle school in Deanwood for him, but in 1997 they renamed it for Ronald Brown, who was also a Commerce Secretary. That school was closed in 2013 but reopened as Ron Brown College Preparatory High School in 2016. References External links 1867 births 1943 deaths United States Secretaries of Commerce Ambassadors of the United States to Canada Clerks Duke University Trinity College of Arts and Sciences alumni People from Bennettsville, South Carolina Franklin D. Roosevelt administration cabinet members 20th-century American politicians National University School of Law alumni Wofford College alumni