Title: George Trenholm
Content:  George Alfred Trenholm (February 25, 1807 &ndash; December 9, 1876) was a South Carolina businessman, financier, politician, and slaveholding planter who owned several plantations and strongly supported the Confederate States of America. He was appointed as its Secretary of the Treasury during the final year of the American Civil War. His merchant firm was estimated to have made $9 million by blockade running with its 60 ships during the war. Although he was imprisoned briefly after the war and suffered some economic setbacks, Trenholm continued to prosper. In the postwar years, Trenholm acted as a major philanthropist, aiding both blacks and whites in South Carolina. He also served on railroad and bank boards, and was elected to state office again in 1874 and died in office.
Title: George Trenholm
Content:  Trenholm died in Charleston on December 9, 1876, and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery. The Library of Congress holds the Confederate Treasury's records, many created by Trenholm. North Carolina erected a historical highway marker near his estate Solitude, where he and Memminger spent summers during his final years. Trenholm is the great-great-grandfather of Virginia politician Charles S. "Chuck" Robb.
Title: Trenholm (surname)
Content: George Trenholm (1807-1876), South Carolina businessman, financier, politician, slaveowner and Confederate Secretary of the Treasury. ; William L. Trenholm (1836-1901), Confederate Army veteran, United States Comptroller of the Currency (1886-1889), and president of the North American Trust Company (1898). 
Title: George Trenholm
Content:  Carolina, Trenholm succeeded him. He was formally appointed on July 18, 1864. Trenholm was a more charismatic figure than his predecessor. Together with his constant published updates he had better press relations and contact with the Confederate Congress. Trenholm had a "never give up the ship" personality, but could do little to stop the financial havoc as the rebel government grew insolvent and printing money caused inflation. Trenholm advocated direct taxation, reducing the circulation of paper currency, further public subscriptions for war bonds, and purchasing blockade runners (rather than continuing to rely on private shippers), but the Confederate Congress refused to pass those measures. He signed off on payments for Southern spies, including operations in Canada and Washington, D.C., 
Title: Charles K. Prioleau
Content:  arms Major Caleb Huse had made, who was also limited on existing funds. Trenholm had developed a fraternal relationship with the Confederacy, and to affirm the relationship, the Company built the gunboat, the Alexandra, using its own funds, and offered it as a gift to the Confederacy. George Trenholm, senior director of Trenholm, Fraser & Company, would also become Confederate Secretary of the Treasury in July, 1864, replacing Christopher Memminger. From 1862 to 1865, he corresponded with many leading Confederates, often involving the prospect of blockade running. Prioleau soon became the master planner in the management of Confederate interests in England. His central role subsequently resulted in 
Title: Confederate gold
Content:  George Trenholm, who was Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury for the last year of the Civil War, was arrested after the war and accused of making off with millions in Confederate assets.
Title: William L. Trenholm
Content:  Trenholm attended South Carolina College, where he was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, graduating in 1855. Comptroller of the Currency from 1886 to 1889, Trenholm, a Confederate Army veteran, was the first Democrat and first Southerner to be appointed Comptroller. Appointed to office by President Grover Cleveland, he was known for the large number of changes he recommended in the banking laws. Some, such as the provision that banks could change name and location without an act of Congress, were adopted. Other recommendations influenced later legislation, including the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Trenholm resigned to become president of a large insurance company and later served as president of a trust company. On January 19, 1898, Trenholm (then president of the American Surety Company) was elected president of the North American Trust Company. In 1899, Trenholm desired to be "free of business cares" and retire, and an election was held for a new president at 100 Broadway. On May 26, 1899, Alvah Trowbridge was elected as the new president of the company, succeeding Trenholm.
Title: George Trenholm
Content:  Pardoned by President Andrew Johnson and ordered released on October 11, 1865 (along with Clark, Campbell, Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens, and Postmaster John H. Reagan of Texas), Trenholm returned to his business. Manager James Welsman had been pardoned in August and on September 29, President Johnson had ordered property returned to Charleston firms, including Trenholm's, over the objection of Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs. U.S. lawyers filed suit in Britain against the firm's assets in order to recover funds, and against several principals, including T.D. Wagner and Charles Prioleau. The Federal Government sued Canada for reparations for damages caused by British firms acting on behalf of the Confederacy, but settled 
Title: George Trenholm
Content:  At the age of 16, George Trenholm had begun working for a major cotton broker, John Fraser and Company in Charleston. He rose to become a partner, and by 1853, when he was 46, he led the company. Fraser died in 1854 and it became Fraser and Trenholm. By 1860 Trenholm had become one of the wealthiest men in the South (if not the United States), owning real estate worth $90,000 and personal property (including slaves) valued at about $35,000. His financial investments included steamships, hotels, wharves, cotton and plantations. About 39 enslaved persons lived with Trenholm's family as domestic staff in Charleston. Trenholm was also director of the Bank of Charleston and of a South Carolina railroad. A member of the Democratic Party, Trenholm was elected to the South Carolina legislature in 1852 and served until 1856. After President Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860, Trenholm strongly supported secession of the South, which was led by South Carolina among the top six of the major slaveholding states.
Title: George Trenholm
Content:  son William, under alternate accounts) and carrying a bag of gold pieces, Trenholm drove to Orangeburg, South Carolina. He took the train to Charleston, where he was arrested at the depot and escorted to jail by United States Colored Troops on June 13. He was accused by the federal government of making off with millions in Confederate assets. He was soon joined in jail by Theodore Dehon Wagner, the manager of Trenholm, Fraser & Co. Trenholm was briefly imprisoned at Hilton Head, South Carolina, but General Quincy Gillmore, who knew him and of his kindnesses toward Union prisoners during the war, and recognizing his physical disability, issued him a written parole on June 25 to allow him to return to 

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