Hugh McCulloch papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 600
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; Suffrage; Finance; Public Debts; Public Finance; African Americans; United States; United States. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; Money; United States. Dept. of the Treasury Office of the Secretary; Tariff; Banks and banking; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Description: Primarily correspondence with some speeches, reports, and other material relating to McCulloch's career as a banker and financier, as U.S. comptroller of the currency (1863-1865), and as U.S. secretary of the treasury (1865-1869 and 1884-1885).  Subjects include enfranchisement of African Americans, currency, national debt, finance, politics, Reconstruction, and tariff.  Correspondents include Edward Atkinson, James Gillespie Blaine, George S. Boutwell, William E. Chandler, Salmon P. Chase, Schuyler Colfax, Samuel Sullivan Cox, William Pitt Fessenden, John Murray Forbes, Morris Ketchum, Joseph Medill, John Sherman, John Aikman Stewart, Charles Sumner, and Robert C. Winthrop.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Louise McCulloch Yale, 1913.

Gift, John M. Kauffmann, 1994.

Transfer, Smithsonian Instiuttion, 1942.

U.S. secretary of the treasury, banker, and financier.