About Bray Hammond
Lived 1886 – 1968 (aged 81). Bray Hammond was an American historian and financier.
Bray Hammond (November 20, 1886 – July 20, 1968) was an American financial historian and assistant secretary to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 1944–1950. He won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for History for Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War. He was educated at Stanford University.
Books Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (Princeton University Press, 1957) Sovereignty and an Empty Purse: Banks and Politics in the Civil War (Princeton, 1970)
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American financial historian
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Bray Hammond was born on 20 November 1886 in Springfield.
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Bray Hammond died on 20 July 1968 in Thetford.
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Bray Hammond was a historian and financier.
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Bray Hammond was American.
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