Bray Hammond (November 20, 1886 – July 20, 1968) was an American financial historian and assistant secretary to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 1944–1950. He won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for History for '' Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War'' (1957). He was educated at

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Books

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Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War ''Banks and Politics in America'' (1957) () is a book by Bray Hammond, which describes the differences in banking and politics in the United States between the American Revolution and the Civil War period. The book was awarded the 1958 Pulitzer Pri ...

'' (Princeton University Press, 1957) * ''Sovereignty and an Empty Purse: Banks and Politics in the Civil War'' (Princeton, 1970)

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The Papers of Bray Hammond
at Dartmouth College Library 1886 births 1968 deaths 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers American social sciences writers Pulitzer Prize for History winners Writers from Springfield, Missouri 20th-century American male writers {{US-historian-stub