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Henry Morgenthau Jr.

1891 - 1967

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Henry Morgenthau Jr. (; 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 the major role in designing and financing the New Deal. After 1937, while still in charge of the Treasury, he played the central role in financing the United States participation in World War II. He also played an increasingly major role in shaping foreign policy, especially with respect to Lend-Lease, support for China, helping Jewish refugees, and proposing (in the "Morgenthau Plan") measures to deindustrialize Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Morgenthau Jr. is the 3,205th most popular politician (up from 7,412th in 2019), the 1,162nd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,420th in 2019) and the 106th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Henry Morgenthau Jr. ranks 3,205 out of 19,576. Before him are Mircea II of Wallachia, Wolfgang Schäuble, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, João Goulart, Iziaslav I of Kiev, and Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu. After him are Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien, Francisco de Almeida, Ghiyas ud din Balban, Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, James II of Scotland, and Frank Caprio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Henry Morgenthau Jr. ranks 31. Before him are Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Alexander Rodchenko, Frank Costello, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Edward Bernays, and Charley Patton. After him are Fumimaro Konoe, Carl Spaatz, Jose P. Laurel, Shukri al-Quwatli, Michael Chekhov, and Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis. Among people deceased in 1967, Henry Morgenthau Jr. ranks 41. Before him are Norman Angell, John Cockcroft, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Françoise Dorléac, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, and Shigeru Yoshida. After him are Héctor Scarone, Jayne Mansfield, Ossip Zadkine, Harald Quandt, Joseph Pilates, and Brian Epstein.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry Morgenthau Jr. ranks 1,162 out of 20,380. Before him are Kenny Rogers (1938), Duff McKagan (1964), Kris Jenner (1955), Carole Lombard (1908), Robert Nozick (1938), and George A. Romero (1940). After him are Toni Braxton (1967), George O. Abell (1927), Matthew C. Perry (1794), Frank Caprio (1936), Sugar Ray Robinson (1921), and John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Henry Morgenthau Jr. ranks 106. Before him are Kamehameha I (1758), James Comey (1960), Lewis Strauss (1896), Frank B. Kellogg (1856), William Perry (1927), and Edward Stettinius Jr. (1900). After him are Frank Caprio (1936), Ted Kennedy (1932), Marco Rubio (1971), Colin Powell (1937), George Papandreou (1952), and Mike Johnson (1972).

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