Russell Cornell Leffingwell papers 1883-1979

Gilbert, Seymour Parker, 1892-1938

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fv9cw3 (person)

Epithet: the younger; Agent-General for Reparation Payments, Berlin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000625.0x000044 ...

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k17x25 (person)

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6776605 (person)

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president in early 1945. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain communist expansion. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the Conservative Coalition that dominated Congres...

Ernst, Morris L. (Morris Leopold), 1888-1976

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65v4b4f (person)

Morris Ernst (August 23, 1888 – May 21, 1976) was an American lawyer and prominent attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In public life, he defended and asserted the rights of Americans to privacy and freedom from censorship, playing a significant role in challenging and overcoming the banning of certain works of literature (including James Joyce's Ulysses and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness) and in asserting the right of media employees to organise labor unions. He als...

Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s866k3 (person)

Chester William Nimitz, Sr. (/ˈnɪmɪts/; February 24, 1885 – February 20, 1966) was a fleet admiral of the United States Navy. He played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas, commanding Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II. Nimitz was the leading US Navy authority on submarines. Qualified in submarines during his early years, he later oversaw the conversion of these vessels' propu...

McCloy, John J. (John Jay), 1895-1989

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qw4bqc (person)

John Jay McCloy (March 31, 1895 – March 11, 1989) was an American lawyer, diplomat, banker, and a presidential advisor. He served as Assistant Secretary of War during World War II under Henry Stimson, helping deal with issues such as German sabotage, political tensions in the North Africa Campaign, and opposing the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the war, he served as the president of the World Bank, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, chairman ...

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tz45h7 (person)

Woodrow Wilson (b. Thomas Woodrow Wilson, December 28, 1856, Staunton, Virginia-d.February 3, 1924, Washington, D.C.), was the twenty-eight President of the United States, 1913-1921; Governor of New Jersey, 1911-1913; and president of Princeton University, 1902-1910. Biographical Note 1856, Dec. 28 Born, Staunton, Va. 1870 ...

Nye, Gerald Prentice, 1892-1971

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b85t2d (person)

Gerald Prentice Nye (1892-1971), newspaper editor and business management consultant, was a U.S. Senator from North Dakota from 1925 to 1945. From the description of Nye, Gerald Prentice, 1892-1971 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10581564 ...

Thomas, Elmer, 1876-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w677857n (person)

Lamont, Thomas Stilwell, 1899-1967.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f76zx7 (person)

Lamont, son of financier Thomas W. Lamont, was a banker and served on Harvard University's Board of Corporation. From the guide to the Thomas Stilwell Lamont correspondence, 1954-1966., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Lamont, son of the financier Thomas W. Lamont, was a banker and served on Harvard University's Board of Corporation. John Masefield was an English poet. From the description of Correspondence, 1954-1966. (Harvard Univ...

Rist, Charles, 1874-1955

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vx133v (person)

McAdoo, W. G. (William Gibbs), 1863-1941

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v989mh (person)

Lawyer, business executive, Democratic Party leader, U.S. secretary of the treasury, Director General of Railroads, and U.S. senator from California. From the description of Papers of William Gibbs McAdoo, 1786-1941 (bulk 1880-1941). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71063506 McAdoo was born near Marietta, Cobb County, GA, on Oct. 31, 1863; attended the Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville; admitted to TN bar in 1885 and began law practice in Chattanooga, TN; moved to NYC, 1892; devel...

Stettinius, Edward R., Jr. (Edward Reilly), 1900-1949

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63776wz (person)

Industrialist and statesman. From the description of Clippings relating to Edward R. Stettinius, 1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068013 Industrialist, Secretary of State, delegate to the United Nations. From the description of Letter [manuscript] : to Darryl F. Zanuck, Beverly Hills, California, 1944 November 11 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647836060 From the description of Financial records of Edward R. Stettinius [...

Blackett, Basil P. (Basil Phillott), Sir, 1882-1935

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m625c7 (person)

1909-1911 private secretary to the financial secretary; 1911 first clerk, the Treasury; 1913-1914 secretary to the royal commission on Indian finance and currency; 1914 special mission to the US government; 1915 secretary to the capital issues committee; 1915 British Treasury member of the Anglo-French financial mission to the USA; 1915 CB; 1915 KCB; 1916 National War Savings committee; 1917-1919 representative of the British Treasury to the USA; 1919-1922 first controller of financ...

Leffingwell, R. C. (Russell Cornell), 1878-1960

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tj0sp8 (person)

U.S. assistant secretary of the treasury. From the description of R.C. Leffingwell letterbooks, 1917-1920. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 707025202 Biographical Note 1878, Sept. 10 Born, New York, N.Y. 1899 Graduated, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 19...

Danaher, John Anthony, 1899-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ng51g4 (person)

John A. Danaher was born in Meriden, Connecticut on January 9, 1889. He graduated from Yale University in 1920 and was admitted to the Connecticut bar in 1922. From 1922 to 1934 he served as an assistant United States attorney in Hartford and from 1933 to 1935 he was secretary of state of Connecticut. Danaher was elected to the United States Senate in 1938 and served one term. Following his defeat for reelection in 1944, he resumed his law practice in Hartford and Washington, D.C. He remained an...

Meyer, Eugene, 1875-1959

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m61n2m (person)

Newspaperman. From the description of Papers of Eugene Meyer, 1819-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83145968 Financier, newspaper executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Eugene Meyer : oral history, 1953. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309733277 ...

Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hm57n0 (person)

Cordell Hull was a Tennessee state representative (1893-1897), a judge of the fifth judicial circuit of Tennessee (1903-1906), U.S. Representative for Tennessee (1907-1921, 1923-1931), chairman of the Democratic National Executive Committee (1921-1924), U.S. Senator for Tennessee (1931-1933), Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1944), and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945. From the description of Cordell Hull letter, 1941 Dec. 12. (Loui...

Norman, Montagu, 1871-1950

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kw6150 (person)

Morrow, Dwight W. (Dwight Whitney), 1873-1931

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6348vgs (person)

Epithet: US senator and diplomatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000410.0x0003cd Lawyer with Simpson, Thacher & Reed, 1905-14; banker with J.P. Morgan & Co., 1914-27; Ambassador to Mexico, 1927-30; U.S. Senator from New Jersey, 1930-31; trustee of educational and philanthropic institutions. Married Elizabeth Reeve Cutter; four children: Elisabeth, Anne, Dwight Jr., Constance. From the des...

Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vd730m (person)

Allen W. Dulles, nephew of Robert Lansing, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State, and brother of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, was a lawyer, foreign-service officer, and intelligence official. He served with the United States Office of Strategic Services in Bern, Switzerland during World War II, during which he penetrated the German Foreign Ministry Office and the "July 1944" anti-Hitler conspirators. In 1947 he helped draft the National Security Act, which created the Central Intelligenc...

Peacock, Edward R.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67j488x (person)

Hopkinson, Edward, 1885-1966

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6765hgf (person)

Mills, Ogden Livingston, 1884-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kk9z39 (person)

U.S. representative from New York and U.S. secretary of the treasury; died 1937. From the description of Papers of Ogden Livingston Mills, 1920-1939 (bulk 1926-1933). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009862 ...

Yale University. Students.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nm6hmg (corporateBody)

Douglas, Paul, 1892-1976

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xd1fsd (person)

Senator. From the description of Reminiscences of Paul Howard Douglas : oral history, 1975. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309732848 From the description of Reminiscences of Paul Howard Douglas : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527416 U.S. Senator (Democrat, Illinois). From the description of Paul H. Douglas papers, 1932-1971. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat ...

Wasson, Robert Gordon, 1898-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tx41n1 (person)

Jay, Nelson Dean, 1883-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ng59sg (person)

Burgess, W. Randolph (Warren Randolph), 1889-1978

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jh45vr (person)

W. Randolph Burgess (1889-1978) was an economist and diplomat, who worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the National City Bank of New York before going into government service. As deputy to the secretary of the treasury and later undersecretary during the Eisenhower administration, he played an important part in formulating America's foreign and domestic economic policies. From 1957 to 1961 Burgess was U.S. ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and also serve...

Kellogg, Frank B. (Frank Billings), 1856-1937

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wd43pr (person)

Lawyer and politician Frank Billings Kellogg was born in New York, and raised in Minnesota. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began a long career in public service as city attorney of Rochester, Minnesota. He served as president of the American Bar Association, and as United States Senator from Minnesota and Ambassador to Great Britain. While serving as Calvin Coolidge's Secretary of State, he co-authored the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, also known as the Pact of Paris, outlawing war an...

Morgenthau, Henry, 1856-1946

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g843q3 (person)

Henry Morgenthau (b. April 26, 1856, Mannheim, German Confederation–d. November 25, 1946, New York City, NY) was born to wealthy parents in Mannheim German where his father had successful cigar factory in German. The family emigrated to the US in 1866. Morgenthau attended City College of New York and Columbia Law School. In the 1910s he became invovled in the Democratic party and donated handsomely to Woodrow Wilson's election campaign in 1912. He was appointed ambassador to Ottoman Empire (1913...

J.P. Morgan & Co.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69922qq (corporateBody)

Layton, Walter, 1884-1966

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q5392t (person)

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n40kzp (person)

Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...

Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q81dnz (person)

English economist. From the description of Typewritten letters signed (2) : [n.p.], to Sir Percy Bates, 1935 Sept. 25 and Oct. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270497268 British economist. From the description of The economic transition in England : typescript, 1925. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122645189 John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), Baron Keynes, economist, was born in Cambridge on 5 June 1883, and educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. ...

Carter, Bernard S., 1893-1961

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65z510b (person)

Leffingwell family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mx7dr6 (family)

Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6610ztc (person)

Senator. From the description of Reminiscences of Estes Kefauver : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419842 Estes Kefauver was a long-time senator from Tennessee and an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for president. From the description of Personal papers, 1934-1939 (University of Tennessee). WorldCat record id: 44918282 Carey Estes Kefauver (b. July 26, 1903, Monroe Count...

Brand, R.H. (Robert Henry), 1878-1963

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wh38qx (person)

Brown, Lewis H. (Lewis Herold), 1894-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xs6f9t (person)

Lewis H. Brown was born on February 13, 1894 in Creston, Iowa. He entered the University of Iowa in 1915 and worked his way through college working as a research assistant and librarian for the State Historical Society. During World War I Brown served as an infantry captain in France. After his discharge he went to work for Montgomery Ward and in eight years was assistant general operating manager. He resigned from Montgomery Ward at thirty-five to become the youngest man ever to be chairman of ...

Lamont, Thomas W. (Thomas William), 1870-1948

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68917b5 (person)

Epithet: American banker British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001219.0x00036a Epithet: banker British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001191.0x000381 Masefield was a British poet and dramatist. From the description of John Masefield collection: additional papers, 1956-1963. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 81756769 ...

Grenfell, E. C.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qw6b32 (person)

Kelley, Nicholas.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kr0s5f (person)

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61s7dgz (person)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Fisher, Irving, 1867-1947

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6765jrf (person)

Irving Fisher (1867-1947) was an economist and professor of political economy at Yale University from 1898 to 1935. He specialized in monetary economics and in the application of mathematical techniques to the solution of economic problems. From the description of Irving Fisher papers, 1932-1938. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122314185 From the guide to the Irving Fisher papers, 1932-1938, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Lovett, Robert A. (Robert Abercrombie), 1895-1986

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60z7nkm (person)

Robert Abercrombie Lovett was born in Huntsville, Texas, on September 14, 1895. After receiving a B.A. from Yale in 1918 and attending Harvard Law School and the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, Lovett became a partner in Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co. Aside from his periods of government service, Lovett was associated with Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co. for the remainder of his life. From 1941-1945, Lovett served as assistant secretary of war for air. During the Truma...

Cravath, Paul D. (Paul Drennan), 1861-1940

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rr2915 (person)

Hanes, John W. (John Wesley), 1892-1987

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tb1t01 (person)

Houston, David Franklin, 1866-1940

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q81zwq (person)

Houston was an educator, cabinet officer, and business executive. In Woodrow Wilson's administration he was secretary of agriculture (1913-1920), secretary of the treasury (1920-1921), and chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. From the description of David Franklin Houston papers, 1891-1930 (inclusive), 1913-1921 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612368785 From the guide to the David Franklin Houston papers, 1891-1930 (inclusive), 1913-1921 (bulk)., (Houghto...

Sachs, Alexander, 1893-1973

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sb4rzk (person)

Economist. Sachs served as advisor to several Roosevelt agencies, including the National Recovery Administration and the Petroleum Industry War Council. From the description of Papers, 1874-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155525586 ...

Delano, Frederic Adrian, 1863-1953

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j102g7 (person)

Army officer and railroad officer. From the description of Frederic Adrian Delano papers, 1917-1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982936 Frederic Adrian Delano (1863-1953), uncle of Franklin D. Roosevelt, was born in Hong Kong, China. His father, Warren Delano, II, was at that time a partner in the shipping firm of Russell and Company based in that city. A few years later the Delano family returned to Algonac, the family home near Newburgh, New York, and Delano spent muc...

Gifford, T. J. Carlyle.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bh5d1d (person)

Eccles, Marriner S. (Marriner Stoddard), 1890-1977

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67h1mzj (person)

"Brigham Young was the colonizer; Daniel Jackling the mining giant, and Marriner S. Eccles was Utah's premier financial genius," was the introduction to a 1977 Deseret News review of Eccles' then-recently published biography. The biography, Marriner S. Eccles: Private Entrepreneur and Public Servant, as well as a previously published autobiography, Beckoning Frontiers, detail the life of this remarkable man. He became the "principal economic philosopher of the New Deal," according t...

Rathbone, Albert, 1868-1943

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68632md (person)

Glass, Carter, 1858-1946

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c53w4n (person)

Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, on 4 January 1858. Member of Virginia State Senate, 1898-1906; member of U.S. House of Representatives. 1902-1918; Secretary of the Treasury, 1918-1920, Member of U.S. Senate, 1920-1946. Died in Washington, D.C. on 28 May 1946. From the description of Letter : from Horace Mann Towner, 1925 Apr. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122701025 Virginia statesman; Secretary of the Treasury. From the description of Letter, 1933 February, Uni...

Green, William Raymond, 1856-1947

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f48438 (person)

Strong, Benjamin, 1872-1928

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68s50vb (person)

Banker. Strong was the first Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 1914-1928. From the description of Papers, 1911-1929, 1914-1928 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155475665 ...

Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xp73wn (person)

American journalist and author. From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : Washington, D.C., 23 September 1960, to Joan Peyser, 1960 Sept. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270992594 Lippmann was an American journalist and author. From the description of Walter Lippmann letters to Hazel Albertson, 1910-1982. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612206746 From the guide to the Walter Lipmann letters to Hazel Albertson, 1910-1982., (H...

Bell, Daniel W., 1891-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qv4656 (person)

McCabe, Thomas B. (Thomas Bayard), 1893-1982

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n31tzm (person)

Harrison, George Leslie, 1887-1958

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z32hvq (person)

BIOGHIST REQUIRED Lawyer, financial expers. Harrison was legal secretary to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1913-1914; Assistant General Counsel, and the Counsel, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C., 1914-1920; Counsel and Deputy Governor, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 1920-1928; Governor and President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 1928-1941; President, New York Life Insurance Company, 1941-1948; and Chairman of the Board, New York Life Insurance Company, 1948-1953. His career ...

Dickey, C. D.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v53jrx (person)

Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1837-1913.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63r1d2k (person)

Catchings, Waddill, 1879-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s761hs (person)