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Andrew Mellon

1855 - 1937

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Andrew William Mellon (; March 24, 1855 – August 26, 1937), known also as A. W. Mellon, was an American banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, and politician. The son of Mellon family patriarch Thomas Mellon, he established a vast business empire before moving into politics. He served as United States Secretary of the Treasury from March 9, 1921, to February 12, 1932, presiding over the boom years of the 1920s and the Wall Street Crash of 1929. A conservative Republican, Mellon favored policies that reduced taxation and the national debt of the United States in the aftermath of World War I. Mellon also helped fund and manage Kennywood Park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andrew Mellon is the 2,342nd most popular politician (up from 12,754th in 2019), the 810th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,102nd in 2019) and the 85th most popular American Politician.

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Among politicians, Andrew Mellon ranks 2,342 out of 19,576. Before him are Anchises, Manasseh, Kitbuqa, Gaston Doumergue, William II of Holland, and Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington. After him are Dardanus, Abd al-Rahman II, Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, Uesugi Kenshin, and Alaric II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Andrew Mellon ranks 4. Before him are Archduchess Sophie of Austria, Ferdinand Tönnies, and King C. Gillette. After him are Émile Verhaeren, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Otto Liman von Sanders, John Browning, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, Percival Lowell, Ernest Chausson, and Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin. Among people deceased in 1937, Andrew Mellon ranks 22. Before him are Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Yevgeny Zamyatin, J. M. Barrie, Gerda Taro, Austen Chamberlain, and Gaston Doumergue. After him are Karol Szymanowski, Jean Harlow, Charles-Marie Widor, Wallace Carothers, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, and Rudolf Otto.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Andrew Mellon ranks 810 out of 20,380. Before him are Steven Weinberg (1933), Anna Politkovskaya (1958), Jean Kennedy Smith (1928), Patricia Highsmith (1921), Michael J. Smith (1945), and George Peppard (1928). After him are Immanuel Wallerstein (1930), Quincy Jones (1933), William Sadler (1950), Dennis Ritchie (1941), Stephen Collins (1947), and Walt Whitman Rostow (1916).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Andrew Mellon ranks 85. Before him are John Kerry (1943), Lucy Webb Hayes (1831), Edwin Stanton (1814), Kamala Harris (1964), Mike Pence (1959), and Nelson Rockefeller (1908). After him are Laura Bush (1946), Boris Johnson (1964), Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902), Jill Biden (1951), Charles Bolden (1946), and Robert R. Livingston (1746).

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