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William Pitt Fessenden (October 16, 1806 – September 8, 1869) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. Fessenden was a Whig (later a Republican) and member of the Fessenden political family.
September 1869 in Portland, Maine) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker, Senator und Finanzminister . Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Familie, Studium und berufliche Laufbahn. 2 Politische Laufbahn. 2.1 Kongressabgeordneter. 2.2 Senator. 2.3 Finanzminister unter Präsident Lincoln. 3 Literatur. 4 Weblinks. Familie, Studium und berufliche Laufbahn.
When Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase resigned in 1864, President Lincoln promptly appointed William P. Fessenden (1806 - 1869) to succeed him. As Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee (1861 - 1864), Fessenden had taken a leading part in framing measures relating to revenue and appropriations to finance the Civil War.
The William P. Fessenden papers consist almost entirely of incoming correspondence addressed to Fessenden, written while he was serving as a U.S. Senator from Maine, 1855-1868. This correspondence reflects Fessenden's moderately progressive political views, and his interests in the abolition of slavery, economics and finance, the turmoil in ...
William P. Fessenden: A Featured Biography. As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee during the Civil War, William Pitt Fessenden of Maine was the architect of many of the nation's wartime revenue policies.
William P. Fessenden (1864–1865) William Pitt Fessenden was born in 1806 in Merrimack County, New Hampshire. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1823, studied law, was admitted to the state bar in 1827, and began practicing in Maine. After serving in the state legislature as a Whig in 1832, Fessenden practiced law until his return to the ...
8. Sept. 2023 · September 8, 1869. Today, the name Fessenden brings to mind little more than a street in Washington, D.C. On September 8, 1869, however, it identified perhaps the most significant senator of the entire Civil War era—William Pitt Fessenden, Republican of Maine.
