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Henry Morgenthau Jr. (/ ˈ m ɔːr ɡ ən θ ɔː /; May 11, 1891 – February 6, 1967) was the United States Secretary of the Treasury during most of the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He played a major role in designing and financing the New Deal.
Henry Morgenthau Jr. (Nova Iorque, 11 de maio de 1891 — Poughkeepsie, 6 de fevereiro de 1967) foi o 52.º Secretário do Tesouro dos Estados Unidos (1934-1945), atuando durante grande parte do mandato de Franklin D. Roosevelt e o início do mandato de Harry Truman. [1]
4 de ago. de 2022 · Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1891–1967) served as the United States secretary of the treasury in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations from January 1, 1934, until July 23, 1945. In 1943, he became involved in the debate over the United States government’s response to the Holocaust.
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., U.S. secretary of the treasury who, during his 12 years in office (1934–45) under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, supervised without scandal the spending of $370 billion, three times more money than had passed through the hands of his 50 predecessors.
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Henry Morgenthau Sr., the future treasury secretary’s father, had been President Woodrow Wilson’s ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I. While in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), the senior Morgenthau learned that the Ottoman authorities were committing atrocities against the Armenian Christian community on the eastern plains of...
During the 1930s, critics and antisemites focused on the fact that President Roosevelt had many Jewish advisors. Some even called the president’s “New Deal” agenda “the Jew Deal.” Morgenthau was often a target of these attacks. Throughout his tenure as Treasury Secretary, Morgenthau remained sensitive to this perception of himself, not wanting to o...
In summer 1943, the World Jewish Congress asked to send $25,000 to its representative in Switzerland to aid Jews in Romania and France. The Treasury Department approved the request, but the State Department delayed forwarding this approval, claiming that the money might fall into Nazi hands, and that the British government did not agree to the Worl...
The War Refugee Board, which had its offices at the Treasury Department and was staffed almost entirely by Treasury Department employees, streamlined the work of private relief agencies, helping them send money and resources into neutral and enemy territory. They also placed American representatives in neutral nations to supervise projects and pres...
In June 1945, one month after Nazi Germany surrendered, Morgenthau began to hear complaints from within the American Jewish community that Holocaust survivors were being treated terribly in camps controlled by the Allied military. Morgenthau and the War Refugee Board staff persuaded the State Department and President Truman that American lawyer Ear...
Henry Morgenthau Jr. was devastated by President Roosevelt’s death on April 12, 1945, and never developed a strong relationship with the new president, Harry Truman. On July 21, 1945, Morgenthau resigned after more than eleven years as the secretary of the treasury. In the late 1940s, he became chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, a Jewish philant...
Learn how Henry Morgenthau Jr., the only Jewish member of FDR's cabinet, exposed State Department obstruction and created the War Refugee Board to aid European Jews during World War II. Explore his personal and professional background, his relationship with the president, and his legacy.
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. was an influential Cabinet member whose work had direct and far-reaching effects on the New Deal and World War II. New digital collections in FRANKLIN shed light on his remarkable career and friendship with Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Learn about the life and career of Henry Morgenthau Jr., who served as Treasury Secretary and ex-officio chairman of the Federal Reserve Board from 1934 to 1945. Find out his role in the New Deal, World War II, Bretton Woods, and Israel.
