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		Franklin MacVeagh was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, on November 22, 1837.
		MacVeagh became a of the founder of the Civil Service Reform League of Chicago and would vacillate between supporting the Democratic and Republican parties, returning eventually to the Republican Party, where he remained his entire life.
		MacVeagh was also responsible for streamlining the Treasury department, rehabilitating the Customs Service, and allowing certified checks to substitute for currency in the payment of customs and internal revenue duties.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/williamhowardtaft/cabinet/treasurysecretary/treasury (260 words)

	Lincoln MacVeagh Papers \| Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
		Lincoln MacVeagh was born October 1, 1890, in Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, the son of Charles and Fanny Davenport (Rogers) MacVeagh.
		MacVeagh married Margaret Charlton Lewis, the daughter of a distinguished linguist, on August 17, 1917.
		MacVeagh discusses Premier/Dictator John Metaxas curtailment of free speech and censorship, the organization of youth groups, the rise of anti-semitism, and the fortification of the Bulgarian and Yugoslavian borders, and the revolt against Metaxas' regime in Crete.
	infoshare1.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/macveagh.html (1666 words)

	Secretary of the Treasury - Franklin MacVeagh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The era was marked by efforts to modernize the federal government and MacVeagh promoted efficiency and economy within the Treasury Department.
		In 1909 MacVeagh commissioned the architectural firm of York and Sawyer to study the Department's efficiency, which resulted in a physical rearrangement of offices and an increase in the security of the Main Treasury Building in Washington.
		His portrait of Franklin MacVeagh was painted from life in 1910, while MacVeagh was Secretary of the Treasury.
	www.ustreas.gov /offices/management/curator/collection/secretary/macveagh.htm (361 words)

	The Buffalo Nickel
		Early in 1911, Treasury Secretary Franklin MacVeagh’s son wrote to him suggesting that there be a new design on the five-cent piece.
		MacVeagh had assumed office under President William Howard Taft in March 1909, and missed all the excitement when President Theodore Roosevelt managed to get several top artists to redesign the cent and gold coins.
		MacVeagh tended to agree, and asked Mint Director Roberts to settle the matter quietly by not asking the artist to do anything more.
	www.collectorusa.com /articles/buffalo5c.php (2146 words)

	Mexican Cultural Institute/Franklin MacVeagh House
		The imposing structure that serves as the Mexican Cultural Institute today was originally built in 1910-1911 for Franklin MacVeagh, then Secretary of the United States Treasury under President William Howard Taft.
		Franklin MacVeagh's wife Emily died in 1916, and he returned to his hometown Chicago.
		Before eventually selling it to the Government of Mexico in 1921, MacVeagh rented the house to notable persons of the time, including Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long, and Albert and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium during their visit in 1919.
	www.embassy.org /gallery/historical/history001.html (317 words)

	Wayne MacVeagh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		MacVeagh era embajador de ESTADOS UNIDOS a Turquía en 1870 a 1871, y era un miembro de la convención constitucional del estado de 1872 y 1873.
		MacVeagh era era el 36.o general de abogado de los Estados Unidos en 1881 debajo de presidente James A. Garfield, pero dimitido inmediatamente después de la muerte de Garfield.
		Su hermano Franklin MacVeagh era brevemente secretaria del Hacienda de ESTADOS UNIDOS.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/wa/Wayne%20MacVeagh.htm (335 words)

	Picture History - Franklin MacVeagh (1837-1934)
		Franklin MacVeagh was the secretary of the treasury under President William Howard Taft.
		MacVeagh was active in Chicago reform politics and was a trustee of the University of Chicago from 1901 to 1913.
		MacVeagh was the owner of one of America's largest wholesale grocery establishments.
	www.picturehistory.com /find/p/5997/mcms.html (110 words)

	Franklin MacVeagh - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Franklin MacVeagh - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This article about an American politician is a stub.
		This page was last modified 23:16, 22 Apr 2005.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Franklin_MacVeagh (239 words)

	RMS Republic - French Gold Import Comparison
		Without a conforming coin shipment appearing within the government reports, those who desired secrecy made it nearly impossible for anyone to find the thin thread which, when pulled, would unravel the shroud of secrecy surrounding the January 12, 1909, $3,000,000 gold eagle transaction, and the Republic's legendary cargo.
		Franklin MacVeagh, secretary of the treasury, paid a visit to the Sub-Treasury this morning, after which he lunched with Isaac N. Seligman of J. Seligman & Co. He will leave for Washington to-night.
		Perhaps Secretary MacVeagh's visit to the Sub-Treasury was for this specific purpose.
	www.rms-republic.com /details_19096.html (798 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Famed of Name -- Oct. 05, 1925
		The father of the present appointee, Wayne MacVeagh, who died eight years ago, was Attorney General under Garfield, and later Minister to Turkey and Ambassador to Italy.
		His uncle, Franklin MacVeagh, who lives at Dublin, N. H., was Secretary of the Treasury under President Taft.
		Charles MacVeagh was born at West Chester, Pa., in 1860, and graduated from Harvard in 1881.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,721202,00.html (374 words)

	HSP Manuscript Guide: 1600-1699
		Wayne MacVeagh was a lawyer, a Civil War Captain, and both an active Republican and Democrat.
		(MacVeagh switched to the Democratic Party in 1892.) He also served as minister to Turkey, 1870-1871, as Attorney General of the United States under Garfield, 1881, and held other state and national offices.
		There are personal letterpress books, 1876-1891, mostly concerned with MacVeagh's private financial dealings, including the Cameron estate; legal letterpress books, 1874,1876; and fee books, 1856-1894; also typescript narrative on the history of the Panama Canal, 1904; and typescript "William Cromwell, Diplomat and Revolutionist" by Earl Harding, 1910.
	www2.hsp.org /collections/manuscripts/1600.htm (7332 words)

	Lincoln Cents from BestCoin.Com
		Even though no legislation was required for the new design, approval of the Secretary of the Treasury was necessary to make the change.
		Franklin MacVeagh gave his approval on July 14, 1909, and not quite three weeks later, on August 2, 1909, the new coin was released to the public.
		Before the coins were issued, however, the initials "VDB" were substituted because officials at the United States Mint felt the name was too prominent.
	www.bestcoin.com /lincoln-cents.htm (958 words)

	Graham Foundation Abstract Database
		Mireille Roddier's study of the history and architecture of the laundry houses of rural France, The Architecture of the French Lavoirs, published in 2003, was funded by the Graham Foundation.
		, the John J. Glessner House, a well studied national landmark, and the Franklin MacVeagh House, demolished in 1922 and never the subject of in-depth architectural research.
		The applicant, who has published her research on the Glessner commission, proposes to make a thorough study of the MacVeagh House.
	www.grahamfoundation.org /abstract/grantDetail.asp?abstractNo=98.064&keyword=Chicago (126 words)

	U.S. Treasury - Fact Sheet on the History of the Lincoln Cent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Secretary of the Treasury was necessary to make the change.
		Franklin MacVeagh gave his approval on July 14, 1909, and not quite three weeks later, on
		August 2, 1909, the new coin was released to the public.
	www.treas.gov /education/fact-sheets/currency/lincoln-cent.shtml (962 words)

	Franklin Macveagh
		Although Franklin MacVeagh (1837-1934) had been a director of the Commercial National Bank of Chicago for twenty-nine years when President William Howard Taft asked him to be Secretary of the Treasury in 1909, he was a man with little real banking experience.
		What he contributed to the administration was a businesslike management of the Treasury Department and a spark of progressiveness in an otherwise conservative cabinet.
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	www.stanklos.com /virtualpubliclibrary/halloftreasury/FRANKLINMACVEAGH.COM (290 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Maclachlan to Madar
		Maine state house of representatives from Franklin County, 1919-20.
		Son of Wayne MacVeagh and Letitia Miner (Lewis) MacVeagh; married 1887 to Fannie Davenport Rogers.
		MacVeagh, Isaac Wayne (1833-1917) — also known as Wayne MacVeagh — of Pennsylvania.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/maclafferty-madar.html (1286 words)

	Indian Head/Buffalo Nickels 1913-1938
		Secretary of the Treasury Franklin MacVeagh, originally a Roosevelt appointee, wasn’t about to pass up the opportunity.
		Reminded by his son in May, 1911 that a new nickel would be “A permanent souvenir of the most attractive sort,” MacVeagh, pointedly bypassing the competent but mediocre Barber, started the process for a new design.
		After much wrangling over this, Secretary MacVeagh instructed the Mint to proceed with the original design and let the vending machine companies adapt their mechanisms to the coin.
	www.oldcoinshop.com /coinhistory/05c-1913-38.htm (1204 words)

	The History of The United States Penny Online
		Even though no legislation was required for a new design, approval of the Secretary was necessary to make the change.
		Franklin MacVeagh gave his approval July 14, 1909, and not quite three weeks later, on August 2nd, the new cent was released to the public.
		Prior to issuance, however, the initials VDB were substituted because Mint officials felt the name was too prominent.
	www.pennies.org /history/two.html (530 words)

	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		MACVEAGH, 214 U.S. PARISH, Executrix of Joseph W. Parish, Deceased, Plff.
		FRANKLIN MACVEAGH, Secretary of the United States Treasury.
		559.] Shaw, pending the appeal, resigned, and Cortelyou, his successor in office, was made a party in his stead, and subsequently, Franklin MacVeagh becoming Secretary, he was substituted for Cortelyou.
	laws.findlaw.com /us/214/124.html (2419 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Old Grocery -- Dec. 21, 1931 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Secretary of the Treasury under President Taft, president of Franklin MacVeagh and Co., 66-year-old Chicago wholesale grocery house.
		The announcement was that the Depression had been too much, the old firm would dissolve.
		MacVeagh, prominent in many a charitable and civic affair, hinted he may devote his time to writing.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,742756,00.html (349 words)

	The Knot - Reception Sites: Inventive Environments in Baltimore/ D.C. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It may surprise you that this Mexican institute is located in the Franklin MacVeagh House, but that just adds to the mansion's interesting history.
		It was built in 1910-11 for Franklin MacVeagh, then U.S. secretary of the treasury under President William Howard Taft.
		In 1921 it was sold to the Mexican government and then utilized as the Mexican Embassy.
	theknot.com /ch_article_local.html?Object=A10309181648&keyword=BALTIMORE&market=030 (1360 words)

	Membership of Yale's Skull and Bones Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Philip Benham 1970 Caskey Taliaferro Franklin 1865 Casscells Christopher Dyson 1976 Cassel John A. Caukins, Jr.
		Victor H. Franklin Richard David 1983 Fredericks Joel Richard 1977 Freeman Henry Varnum 1869 French Asa Palmer 1882 French Robert Dudley 1910 Friedland Johnathan David 1970 Fritzche Peter B. Frost Elihu Brintnal 1883 Frost, Jr.
		George Brooke 1952 Robertson Charles Franklin 1859 Robertson Robert 1833 Robertson, Jr.
	www.wealth4freedom.com /truth/3/skullroster.htm (2599 words)

	Chapter 176
		A Fantastic Collection of Confederate Notes Presented by President Taft's Secretary of the Treasury, Franklin MacVeagh.
		Includes the original typed letter signed by Franklin MacVeagh on Treasury Department stationary, Oct.
		Gentlemen: Believing that your Post will be interested in receiving specimens of notes issued by the Confederate States of America, for exhibition purposes in the Post headquarters, I take pleasure in sending you an assortment of the same.
	www.dataset.com /goldbergsale25/chap176.htm (308 words)

	Filing Cabinet > John Crerar - Tribune
		When the great organ gave forth the first soft strains of the voluntary the rustling of the incoming audience had ceased and a solemn quiet had settled on the crowded hall.
		It is of itself his monument, his shaft of glory, bearing imperishable inscriptions of his love for men, and abiding faith in God.
		He began slowly and deliberately, weighing each word as it fell from his lips, his intense manner adding eloquence to his well-chosen language.
	home.uchicago.edu /~jwk/files/crerar-tribune.html (3737 words)

	1913-38 NICKEL FIVE CENTS BUFFALO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Under the Coinage Act of 1890, it was time for a change, and Secretary of the Treasury Franklin MacVeagh, originally a Roosevelt appointee, wasn't about to pass up the opportunity.
		Fraser's design was medallic and beautiful, and for that reason was favored by Secretary MacVeagh.
		Reservations also came from the vending machine business, which felt that the new coins wouldn't pass counterfeit detection devices properly.
	www.coinsite.com /CoinSite-PF/PParticles/05cbuflo.htm (1182 words)

	Wheat Pennies Designed To Celebrate the Anniversary Of Lincoln's Birth. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		So Brenner was not being unreasonable when he attempted to claim recognition for his own work in a similar manner.
		But because of the public outcry Treasury Secretary Franklin MacVeagh ordered on August 5, 1909, that production was to stop and the initials removed from the die.
		This is in spite of 27,995,000 and 484,000 Wheat Pennies having been minted and put into circulation by the Philadelphia and San Francisco Mints respectively.
	www.copperandnickelcoincollecting.com /wheatpennies.html (1171 words)

	The Negotiations Proceed
		Selections from the correspondence leading to the hiring of Burnham by the Merchants Club
		Commercial Club member Franklin MacVeagh, who previously discussed with Burnham the idea of the club backing an effort to offer a plan for Chicago, expresses his approval that Burnham will work with the Merchants Club on this project.
		At the bottom, Burnham appends his note to Charles Norton stating that he is ready to begin.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/410029.html (130 words)

	P. J. SMALLEY: An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society
		No explanation for how this letter came into Smalley's possession is evident within the collection.
		A letter written by Franklin K. Lane from his San Francisco law office to P. Smalley on December 21, [189?] stated Lane's belief "that a political breakup is coming and new parties will be borne -- one very radical, the other mildly so."
		A letter written by Grover Cleveland from Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts to P. Smalley on July 5, 1891 responded to an editorial that Smalley forwarded regarding the free coinage of silver, Cleveland's pending nomination, and Cleveland's alliance with the Democratic platform.
	www.mnhs.org /library/findaids/00520.html (2442 words)

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