Multnomah-Lane County OR Archives Biographies.....Haas, Charles T.  July 4, 1888 - 
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	CHARLES T. HAAS.  A successful career is that of Charles T. Haas, one 
of Portland’s self-made men and an attorney of international repute.  A native 
of St. Paul, Minnesota, he was born July 4, 1888, and is a son of Anthony and 
Mary (Trissel) Haas, the former a prominent manufacturer.  Charles T. Haas 
completed a course in the St. Thomas Military Academy in 1907 and in the 
following year was appointed to West Point.  Later he won the B. A. degree 
from the University of Minnesota, from which he received the degree of LL. B. 
in 1910, and in the same year took a postgraduate course at Cornell University 
in Ithaca, New York.  He worked his way through college, becoming a reporter 
for the St. Paul Dispatch, the Pioneer Press and the Minneapolis Tribune, and 
also wrote special articles on sports for the Associated Press.  For six 
months he practiced law in St. Paul and since 1911 has followed his profession 
in Portland.  Mr. Haas specializes in international law and through intensive 
study and wide research has acquired an exhaustive knowledge of this subject, 
on which he is a recognized authority.  He is the only attorney in the United 
States who represents fourteen foreign governments, and he has successfully 
handled many alien property suits.  The outstanding work of his career is 
described as follows in the Daily Journal of Commerce, a Portland paper, in 
the issue of October 5, 1927:
	“On the outcome of a test case, brought in the circuit here Monday by 
Charles T. Haas, well known Portland attorney, Pacific building, hangs the 
decision as to whether or not more than ten thousand policyholders of the New 
York Life Insurance Company, the Equitable Guardian Life and Mutual of New 
York, involving insurance totaling more than fifty million dollars, will lose 
everything or gain millions.”
	This is the biggest law suit ever filed and Mr. Haas was also in 
charge of the zoning ordinance case, which was taken to the supreme court.  He 
has interpreters in his office and is himself an accomplished linguist, 
conversing fluently in German, French and Italian.  His name appears on the 
directorates of Portland Marine Ways & Boat Company, the Oregon Asbestos 
Mines, the Oregon Investment & Mortgage Company, the Transatlantic Estates & 
Credit Company and the National Savings & Loan Association, and of the last 
named organization he is also vice president.
	On July 27, 1912, Mr. Haas married Miss Freda Rees, a member of one of 
the old and prominent families of Portland and a daughter of Dr. P. A. Rees, 
whose father, William Rees, came to Oregon with the pioneers of 1842 and built 
the first log house in St. Paul, this state.  To Mr. and Mrs. Haas has been 
born a daughter, Jane.
	During the World war Mr. Haas entered the service of his country and 
was a machine gun instructor at various officers’ training camps.  He won a 
captain’s commission and was stationed at the barracks in Vancouver, 
Washington, and at the officers’ training camp in Eugene, Oregon.  In politics 
he is a republican and in 1913 was appointed assistant city attorney.  Along 
fraternal lines he is affiliated with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks 
and his interest in Portland’s development is indicated by his connection with 
the Chamber of Commerce.  He is also a member of the Press Club, the Portland 
Golf Club, Delta Chi, a legal society, and the local and state bar 
associations.  Mr. Haas enjoys traveling and has made several trips to Europe 
and South America.  He views life from a broad outlook and his merit compels 
esteem.	


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley from The Dalles to the Sea, Pages 194-195

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