Wayne Chatfield-Taylor (December 19,

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– November 22,

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) was

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and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President

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Early life

Chatfield-Taylor was born in

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on December 19, 1893 . He was one of four children born to Rose (née Farwell) Chatfield-Taylor and

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, an author and biographer who was considered a top authority on

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. His siblings were Robert, Otis, and the eldest, Adelaide (wife of Hendricks Hallett Whitman and William Davies Sohier and grandmother of Meg Whitman). After his mother died in 1918, his father married Estelle (née Barbour) Stillman, the widow of

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and daughter of

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, in 1920. His paternal grandparents were Henry Hobart Taylor and Adelaide (

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Chatfield) Taylor. His father added "Chatfield" to his surname as the stipulation of a large inheritance from his maternal uncle, Wayne Chatfield. His maternal grandparents were

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Charles B. Farwell Charles Benjamin Farwell (July 1, 1823 – September 23, 1903) was a U.S. Representative and Senator from Illinois. Early life Farwell was born in Painted Post, New York on July 1, 1823. He was a son of Henry Farwell (1795–1873) and ...

(brother of

John V. Farwell John Villiers Farwell Sr. (July 29, 1825 – August 20, 1908) was an American merchant and philanthropist from New York City. Moving to Chicago, Illinois at a young age, he joined Wadsworth & Phelps, eventually rising to be senior partner at John ...

) and Mary Eveline (née Smith) Farwell. His maternal aunt Anna Farwell married the composer Reginald de Koven. Wayne was a graduate of St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts and of

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. During

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, he served overseas as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army.

Career

Chatfield-Taylor began his business career in 1916 with the Central Trust Company of Illinois (which had been formed in 1901 by former Comptroller of the Currency

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before he became

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under

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). Later, he worked for

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, Glore, Ward & Co., an investment banking house in Chicago, becoming vice president of the business in 1927. He was also vice president of the Chicago Investors corporation and a director of the People's Trust and Savings Bank. He also served the government in administrative and advisory capacities from 1933 to 1952. He first joined President

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administration in 1933 as assistant to the Administrator of the

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before becoming special advisor to the President on foreign affairs. He joined the Export-Import Bank as a vice president 1935 before succeeding L. W. Robert Jr. as the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Secretary

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in 1936. He resigned in February 1939 over differences over Treasury policies with Secretary Morgenthau to become the European delegate of the

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. Chatfield-Taylor returned to government service in October 1940, becoming the Under Secretary of Commerce under Secretary

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in 1940, and serving until 1945. In 1944, he was the federal official who took charge of Montgomery Ward & Co.'s Chicago plant after it was ordered seized by the government and the firm's chairman,

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, was removed from the premises by soldiers. In April 1945, resigned from the Commerce Department to return to Export-Import Bank after being elected president. He served in that role until the position was abolished under the Export–Import Bank Act of 1945. Later economic advisor to

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in setting up the Economic Cooperation Administration, Chatfield-Taylor was also economic advisor to the

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(better known as the

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) after

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Personal life

On August 22, 1917, Chatfield-Taylor was married to Adele Margaret Blow (1895–1977). He built the noted 1925 Lake Forest,

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mansion "Bluff's Edge" located at 620 Lake Road. His wife, a descendant of a family that settled in Virginia in 1609 and a member of the

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, restored thirty historic homes and buildings, including the Thomas Nelson House (also known as York Hall) in Yorktown, Virginia, the Federal House,

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, and Mantua, a classic structure in

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. Chatfield-Taylor died at the Washington Medical Center in

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on November 22, 1967. He was buried at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington. His widow died on August 31, 1977 in

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and was buried at Hollywood Cemetery in

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chatfield-Taylor, Wayne 1967 deaths 1893 births People from Chicago St. Mark's School (Massachusetts) alumni Yale University alumni 20th-century American economists Economists from Illinois United States Under Secretaries of Commerce United States Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury Burials at Rock Creek Cemetery