Charles Henry Nimitz, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Built the Nimitz Hotel in Fredericksburg, Texas
Date of Birth: 09-Nov-1826
Date of Death: 28-Apr-1911
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Charles Henry Nimitz
- Charles Henry Nimitz (born Karl Heinrich Nimitz; November 9, 1826 – April 28, 1911) was born in Bremen, Germany, the son of a merchant seaman.
- He also went to sea before the Nimitz family immigrated to South Carolina in the early 1840s, and later became part of the Adelsverein colonization experiment in the newly annexed state of Texas.
- He was the grandfather of, and role model for, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz.
- In 1852, he built the Nimitz Hotel in Fredericksburg, Texas in the United States.
- The hotel he built now houses the National Museum of the Pacific War.
- The Nimitz Hotel was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1989, Marker number 10089.
- Nimitz was elected to the Twenty-second Texas Legislature in 1890, representing Gillespie, Comal and Blanco counties, which constituted District 89.
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