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Article: Mcadoo, William Gibbs 1863-1941
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MCADOO, WILLIAM GIBBS 1863-1941
Candidate for the democratic presidential nomination, 1920, 1924
Secretary of the Treasury
Born in Georgia during the Civil War, William G. McAdoo received his college education at the University of Tennessee, became a lawyer, and left his native South, at age twenty-nine, for opportunities in New York, where he developed considerable experience as an attorney of high finance. Although never elected to public office, McAdoo's political activism began when he worked in Woodrow Wilson's 1910 campaign for governor of New Jersey and continued through Wilson's successful presidential bid in 1912. After winning the presidency Wilson appointed McAdoo as secretary ...