Bray Hammond
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Bray Hammond was an American author
and assistant secretary of Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System
between the years of 1944 and 1950.
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
and assistant secretary of Board of Governors
Board of governors
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of the Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States. It was created on December 23, 1913 with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907...
between the years of 1944 and 1950.
Authored books
- Sovereignty and an Empty Purse: Banks and Politics in the Civil War
- Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War, for which Hammond won the Pulitzer PrizePulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
for history in 1958.