Miller & Garrison (now Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP). He was appointed receiver of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company in December 1918 and served until June 1923. His wife Margaret died in Manhattan in 1926. He died on October 19, 1932, at his home in Sea Bright, New Jersey. References Sources External links 1864 births 1932 deaths United States Secretaries of War People from Sea Bright, New Jersey Harvard University alumni New Jersey lawyers University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni Woodrow Wilson administration cabinet members 20th-century American politicians Politicians from Camden, New Jersey Phillips Exeter Academy alumni Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)