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2 unusual facts about Bureau of Insular Affairs


Bureau of Insular Affairs

Future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter served briefly as a law officer for the bureau beginning in 1911.

Puerto Rico, also an unincorporated territory of the United States, was administered under a civil government created by the Foraker Act of 1900, amended by the Jones-Shafroth Act of 1917.


Frank McIntyre

Frank McIntyre (January 5, 1865 - February 16, 1944) was an American military officer who served for many years as Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, responsible for federal administration of the Philippines and Puerto Rico.


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