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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 United States participation in World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Morgenthau Jr. has received more than 637,035 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Henry Morgenthau Jr. is the 7,413th most popular politician (up from 7,706th in 2019), the 2,420th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,698th in 2019) and the 159th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Henry Morgenthau Jr. ranks 7,413 out of 19,576. Before him are Miklós Németh, Shantanu, Frederick I, Elector Palatine, Beopheung of Silla, Democedes, and Emanuel Ringelblum. After him are Khutulun, Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Leonardo Conti, John VIII, Count of Vendôme, and Roman of Bulgaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Henry Morgenthau Jr. ranks 67. Before him are Lajos Zilahy, Lilya Brik, Poul Nielsen, Gio Ponti, Kurt von Tippelskirch, and Dimitrije Ljotić. After him are Bruno Loerzer, Jose P. Laurel, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, Werner Lorenz, and Shizo Kanakuri. Among people deceased in 1967, Henry Morgenthau Jr. ranks 87. Before him are Dorothy Parker, Zbigniew Cybulski, Alphonse Juin, Ernst Niekisch, Martine Carol, and Wolf Albach-Retty. After him are Walter Weiß, Luis Somoza Debayle, Jane Darwell, Ivan Isakov, George Kelly, and Harold Holt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry Morgenthau Jr. ranks 2,420 out of 20,380. Before him are Will Ferrell (1967), Clark Ashton Smith (1893), Darryl F. Zanuck (1902), Ken Block (1967), David Farragut (1801), and Craig T. Nelson (1944). After him are Jon Favreau (1966), Joan Bennett (1910), Bud Powell (1924), Frank Lucas (1930), Tony Sirico (1942), and Charles Addams (1912).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Henry Morgenthau Jr. ranks 159. Before him are Leland Stanford (1824), Jerome Powell (1953), Bess Truman (1885), Dwight F. Davis (1879), Stacey Abrams (1973), and John Connally (1917). After him are John Hancock (1737), Dan Quayle (1947), Jeb Bush (1953), Harry Dexter White (1892), Thomas R. Marshall (1854), and James Baker (1930).

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