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Franklin MacVeagh (November 22, 1837 – July 6, 1934) was an American politician, lawyer, grocer and banker. He served as the United States Secretary of the Treasury under President William Howard Taft.
Franklin MacVeagh (1909 - 1913) Although Franklin MacVeagh (1837 - 1934) had been a director of the Commercial National Bank of Chicago for twenty-nine years when President William Howard Taft asked him to be Secretary of the Treasury in 1909, he was a man with little real banking experience.
Following his departure from the cabinet in 1913, MacVeagh returned to Chicago to become president of Franklin MacVeagh & Co., a wholesale grocery company. His company folded in 1932, a victim of the Depression. Franklin MacVeagh died on July 6, 1934, at age 96.
The papers of Franklin MacVeagh (1837-1934) encompass the years 1799-1934, with most of the material after 1880. Approximately half of the collection is concentrated in the period 1909 through March 1913 while MacVeagh was secretary of the treasury in the cabinet of William H. Taft.
The Franklin MacVeagh Papers consist of correspondence largely relating to alumni activities of the Yale College Class of 1862. Prominent correspondents are James H. Crosby, who was secretary of the class, William W. Farnam, William H. Hale, William Kent and Cornelius Ladd Kitchel.
Franklin MacVeagh (1837-1934) was a bank president in Chicago for 29 years before being appointed Treasury Secretary (1909-1913) by President Taft. Both MacVeagh and his wife, Emily Eames McVeagh, were very conversant in design, architecture and construction.
Library of Congress 27. TAFT HOME OVERVIEW: BORN: November 22, 1837 Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. DIED: July 6, 1934 (age 96) Chicago, Illinois. EDUCATION: Yale ...
