Louis Samuel Rothschild (March 29, 1900 – September 1, 1984) was an American investment banker who served as chairman of the Federal Maritime Board and as Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
[1] In 1956, he sold his interest in the department stores and opened a private investment business in Washington.
[3] Rothschild also served as president or director of other corporations and government agencies,[2] including as president and director of the Transportation Equities Corporation, from 1958 to 1961 and 1965; and as director, president and chairman of the Washington, D.C.–based Intermediate Credit Corp. (a subsidiary of Financial General Corporation), from 1962 to 1965,[4][5] and the Standard R. E. Improvement Co.[1] In 1953, moved to Washington, D.C. and became the U.S. delegate to NATO Planning Board for Ocean Shipping.
The impetus for the move to Washington was his service as chairman of the Board of Inland Waterways Corporation, which he held from 1953 to 1959.
[8] He served in that role until 1958 when he was succeeded by John J. Allen Jr. From 1955 to 1957, he was a member of the Commission on Government Security that was chaired by Loyd Wright, a former president of the American Bar Association.