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Henry Morgenthau, Jr»
COMMITTEE O N THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Register of Papers
I

Processed: MA
Date: 11/15/55

HENRY

HOBGEMTHAU.

JR.

The papers of Henry Morgenthau, Jr., publisher, agriculturist, Secretary of the Treasury, are deposited in the Roosevelt
Library at Hyde Park, except that some of them are on laon at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology where John Blum is at work
on Mr. Morgenthau1 s biography.
Linear feet of shelf space occupied:
Approximate number of iternss

900 plus ^o\3 .

Permission for use of these diaries may be obtained, but
only by students able to show cause.




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- 2 Biographical Note

1891, May 11

Born, New York City

1909-10 )
1912-13 )

Attended Cornell University

1916, Apr. 17

Married Elinor Fatman (3 children)

1922-33

Publisher, American Agriculturist
Chairman, Conservation Commission, N.Y. State

1933

Chairman, Federal Farm Board

1933

Governor, Farm Credit Corporation

1933

Acting and Under-Secretary of Treasury

1934-43

Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin
Delano Roosevelt

1947-51

Chairman, then Hon. Chairman, United Jewish Appeal

1951-

Chairman Board, American Financial and Development Corporation for Israel

See: Who's Who in America, 1952/53, vol. 27, Marquis




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- 3 Description of Series

The Morgenthau collection includes 900 volumes of diary
containing verbatim transcripts of every conference in -which Mr.
Morgenthau participated and every telephone conversation in -which
he participated.

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