Bray Hammond (November 20, 1886 – July 20, 1968) was an American financial historian and assistant secretary to the
Board of Governors
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of the
Federal Reserve System
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in 1944–1950. He won the 1958
Pulitzer Prize for History
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for ''
Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War'' (1957). He was educated at
Stanford University.
Books
* ''
Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War'' (Princeton University Press, 1957)
* ''Sovereignty and an Empty Purse: Banks and Politics in the Civil War'' (Princeton, 1970)
References
External links
*
The Papers of Bray Hammondat 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
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