with Ambassador Eliahu Eilat as well as his successor Abba Eban. Niles was active in American Jewish communal politics. Along with his involvement in the United Jewish Appeal, he also maintained friendships with influential Jewish leaders such as Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Abram L. Sachar, along with Jewish supreme court justices Louis D. Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter. Death Niles never married, and died in Beth Israel Hospital in Boston on 28 September 1952, two months shy of his 64th birthday. Notes Further reading 1888 births 1952 deaths Medal for Merit recipients United States presidential advisors Franklin D. Roosevelt administration cabinet members Truman administration cabinet members American people in the Venona papers Jewish American government officials American Zionists Works Progress Administration workers Harvard Law School alumni Boston Latin School alumni