BLISS, CORNELIUS NEWTON 1), American merchant and politician, was born at Fall River (Massachusetts), on Jan. 26, 1833. He was educated in his native city and in New Orleans, where he early entered his stepfather's counting-house. Returning to Massachusetts in 1849, he became a clerk, and sub sequently a junior partner, in a prominent Boston commercial house. Later he removed to New York city to establish a branch of the firm. In 1881 he organized and became president of Bliss, Fabyan & Company, one of the largest wholesale dry-goods houses in the U.S.A. A consistent advocate of the protective tariff, he was one of the organizers, and for many years president, of the American Protective Tariff League. In politics an active Republican, he was chairman of the Republican State committee in 1887 and 1888, and contributed much to the success of the Harrison ticket in New York in the latter year. He was treasurer of the Republican national committee from 1892 to 1904, and was secretary of the interior in President McKinley's cabinet from 1897 to 1899. His lack of sympathy with Theodore Roosevelt's growing influence caused him to retire from politics ; and he died in New York on Oct. 9, 1911.