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 | John A. Dix by Caroline L. Ransom 1883 U.S. Department of the Treasury Washington, D.C. | Ransom, Caroline L. |  After the resignation of Secretary of the Treasury Philip F. Thomas in 1860 and the secession of South Carolina the same year, the moneyed interests in the East demanded that John A. Dix (1798 - 1879) be made Secretary. A former postmaster and Senator from New York, Dix was reputed to be "a cultivated writer, a fluent vigorous speaker, a man of great... |
 | Levi Woodbury by Henry Augustus Loop 1880 U.S. Department of the Treasury Washington, D.C. | Loop, Henry Augustus | Levi Woodbury (1798 - 1851), formerly Secretary of the Navy, was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Jackson in 1834 and continued under President Martin Van Buren. Woodbury had been an opponent of the Second Bank of the United States in the Senate and as Secretary he continued to oppose it. Like his predecessor, Acting Secretary Roger... |
 | Sec. Oliver Wolcott, Jr. by Richard Morrell Staigg 1880 U.S. Department of the Treasury Washington, D.C. | Staigg, Richard Morrell | Beginning in 1789, Oliver Wolcott Jr. (b.1760 - 1833) played an important role in the organization of the nascent Treasury Department. First, as Auditor, he established its clerical forms and methods, and two years later, as Comptroller, he was instrumental in establishing the branches of Secretary Alexander Hamilton's First Bank of the United States. |
 | Sec. William A. Richardson by Richard Morrell Staigg 1880 U.S. Department of the Treasury Washington, D.C. | Staigg, Richard Morrell | Previously Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Secretary George S. Boutwell, President Grant promoted William A. Richardson (1821 - 1896) to Secretary when Boutwell resigned. The postwar economy had expanded so quickly that commercial banks became nervous and began calling in their loans. As a result, in the summer of 1873 the money supply... |
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