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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 a 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. 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 deindustrialise Germany.Morgenthau was the father of Robert M. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Morgenthau Jr. has received more than 554,172 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Henry Morgenthau Jr. is the 7,729th most popular politician (up from 8,430th in 2019), the 2,705th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,105th in 2019) and the 169th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Henry Morgenthau Jr. ranks 7,729 out of 15,577Before him are Tudhaliya III, Isabella of Valois, Duchess of Bourbon, Mitja Ribičič, Avigdor Lieberman, George VIII of Georgia, and Muhammad IV of Granada. After him are Gotō Shinpei, Gilukhipa, Albert II, Duke of Bavaria, Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, and Madan Mohan Malaviya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Henry Morgenthau Jr. ranks 75Before him are Shukri al-Quwatli, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, Kálmán Kalocsay, Tin Ujević, Olga Khokhlova, and Charles Munch. After him are Bruno Loerzer, Johannes R. Becher, Jüri Lossmann, Wilder Penfield, Evgeny Pashukanis, and Werner Lorenz. Among people deceased in 1967, Henry Morgenthau Jr. ranks 94Before him are Jane Darwell, H. H. Kung, Carl Sandburg, Ivan Isakov, Alphonse Juin, and Luis Somoza Debayle. After him are João Guimarães Rosa, Mir Osman Ali Khan, Franz Waxman, Pierre Jeanneret, Juliusz Rómmel, and Oskar Fischinger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry Morgenthau Jr. ranks 2,705 out of 18,182Before him are Nolan Bushnell (1943), Ira Gershwin (1896), Stella Adler (1901), Michael DeBakey (1908), Dyan Cannon (1937), and Ted Nelson (1937). After him are Winslow Homer (1836), Wallace Shawn (1943), Allen Newell (1927), Liev Schreiber (1967), George Pullman (1831), and Katharine Graham (1917).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Henry Morgenthau Jr. ranks 169Before him are Jerome Powell (1953), Lew Wallace (1827), John Connally (1917), John C. Calhoun (1782), Besse Cooper (1896), and Mangas Coloradas (1792). After him are Ronald Lauder (1944), Mike Pompeo (1963), Henry Wilson (1812), Thomas R. Marshall (1854), Susan Wojcicki (1968), and Dan Quayle (1947).