{"id":144974,"date":"2025-03-28T17:10:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=144974"},"modified":"2025-03-28T17:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:10:34","slug":"the-jewish-nc-statesman-who-built-a-massive-christmas-ornament-empire-dies-at-age-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=144974","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Jewish NC statesman who built a massive Christmas ornament empire dies at age 102&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/news\/business\/article302437279.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer<\/a>: &#8220;Marshall Rauch, a Jewish Gaston County politician who once was the largest Christmas ornament maker in the world died March 18. He was 102. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Rauch was renowned for Gastonia-based Rauch Industries, which made Christmas ornaments until the family sold the business in 1996 for about $50 million, according to Charlotte Observer archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8230;Rauch also left his mark in politics. He was elected to the Gastonia City Council from 1952-1954 and from 1961-1965, according to his obituary. He also served two two-year terms as mayor term, according to The Charlotte Observer archives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In 1967, the Democrat was elected to represent the 25th District in the North Carolina Senate. He served in the Senate for 24 years until 1990.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte Observer: &#8220;Marshall Rauch, a Jewish Gaston County politician who once was the largest Christmas ornament maker in the world died March 18. He was 102. Rauch was renowned for Gastonia-based Rauch Industries, which made Christmas ornaments until the family sold the business in 1996 for about $50 million, according to Charlotte Observer archives. &#8230;Rauch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144975,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144974\/revisions\/144975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}