William Loeb, Jr.

William Loeb, Jr. (October 9, 1866 – September 19, 1937) was an American political figure. He was the Presidential secretary to President Theodore Roosevelt and Collector of the Port of New York from 1909 to 1913. He was the father to William Loeb III, the conservative publisher of the Manchester Union Leader.

William Loeb, Jr. was born in Albany, New York. He was the son of William Loeb, a barber and Prussian immigrant of Jewish descent. He attended public school but did attend college. At the age of 12 he took his first job as secretary to Bishop William Croswell Doane, the first Bishop of Albany. He became a newspaper correspondent and as a law reporter he became actively interested in politics and served as secretary to the Republican county committee of Albany County and as vice president of the Unconditional Republican Club. In 1888 he was elected official stenographer of the lower house of the New York Legislature, and over the years gained political experience and acquaintances serving as private secretaries to the Lieutenant-Governor, President pro tempore of the State Senate, Speaker of the Assembly and to 1891 candidate for Governor Jacob Sloat Fassett during whose campaign he toured the state with as well as reporting on the debates of the 1894 New York State Constitutional Convention.

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