Person:Ogden Mills (2)

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Ogden Livingston Mills
d.11 Oct 1937 New York, New York
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  1. Beatrice Mills1883 - 1972
  2. Gladys Mills1883 - 1970
  3. Ogden Livingston Mills1884 - 1937
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Name[2] Ogden Livingston Mills
Gender Male
Birth[2][1] 23 Aug 1884 Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island
Marriage to Margaret Rutherfurd
Death[2][1] 11 Oct 1937 New York, New York
Burial[2] St. James Episcopal Church, Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York
Reference Number? Q1370873?


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Ogden Livingston Mills (August 23, 1884October 11, 1937) was an American lawyer, businessman and politician. He served as United States Secretary of the Treasury in President Herbert Hoover's cabinet, during which time Mills pushed for tax increases, spending cuts and other austerity measures that would deepen the economic crisis.[1] A member of the Republican Party, Mills also represented New York in the United States House of Representatives, served as Undersecretary of the Treasury during the administration of President Calvin Coolidge, and was the Republican nominee in the 1926 New York gubernatorial election.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Ogden L. Mills, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Find A Grave.

    United States Congressman. A 1907 graduate of the Harvard Law School, Mills entered politics in 1914 when he was elected to the New York state senate. In 1917 he left the senate to serve in the army during the First World War. After the war, he returned to politics and in 1921 was elected to represent New York's 17th District in the House of Representatives, a post he held until 1927. In 1926 he campaigned unsuccessfully for Governor of New York. In 1927 he was appointed Undersecretary of the Treasury under Sec. Andrew Mellon until 1932, when he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury for the rest of Hoover's term in office. Find a Grave