Henry
Morgenthau
was born in New York on 11th May, 1891.
After studying at Cornell University, he
published an edited the farm journal, American
Agriculturist
(1922-1933). Morgenthau was a close friend of Franklin
D. Roosevelt and a fellow member of the Democratic
Party, helped him in his numerous political campaigns.
When Roosevelt became governor of New York in
1929, he appointed Morgenthau as a state conservation commissioner
and as chairman of his Agricultural
Advisory Committee.
When Franklin D. Roosevelt became
president he appointed Morgenthau as his Secretary of the Treasury.
Over the next twelve years, Morgenthau supervised the spending of
$370,000,000,000. Morgenthau held conservative views on economics
and constantly argued
in favour of a balanced budget.
Morgenthau resigned shortly after the death
of Roosevelt in April, 1945 and retired to his farm in Duchess County.
Henry
Morgenthau
died on 6th February, 1967.
Sam Berman, Henry Morgenthau (c. 1935)
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