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. Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan to

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and his wife Caroline, Theodore Brentano was educated in

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and Zurich. He studied law at National University Law School (which later became George Washington University Law School). Brentano married Minnie Claussenius on May 17, 1887. He was admitted to the bar in 1882, became an assistant city attorney in 1888, and by 1890 was a Superior Court judge in

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(he would go on to become chief justice). Brentano remained on the bench for thirty-one years. In 1899 Brentano became the new treasurer and president of the

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, the newspaper of which his father was editor during the Civil War, when the majority stockholders appointed a new board of directors and ousted former treasurer Charles Francis Pietsch. Brentano was appointed as minister to Hungary on February 10, 1922, arrived in

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on May 10, presented his credentials on May 16, and served until May 6, 1927.

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