Article: Mellon, Andrew

MELLON, ANDREW


In the 1920s Andrew Mellon (1855 1937) was one of the richest men in the United States through his investments in many industries, including aluminum, coke, oil, and steel. In that decade he became an influential member of the government, serving as Secretary of the Treasury for 12 years during the administrations of Warren G. Harding (1921 1923), Calvin Coolidge (1923 1929), and Herbert Hoover (1929 1933).

The fourth son of millionaire Pittsburgh banker Thomas Mellon, Andrew took over his father's business when he was in his twenties and steadily expanded it until the family bank became the leading financial institution for industry in the ...

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