Harold Theodore Tate
Encyclopedia
Harold Theodore Tate was Treasurer of the United States
from May 31, 1928 until January 17, 1929, serving under President Calvin Coolidge
. While holding that post, his duties included being the signatory on United States currency.
He was the son of Allen S. Tate and Ariana Peck Tate of Grainger County, Tennessee. He had previously served as Deputy Treasurer of the United States, and one of his duties in that post included signing the President's paycheck. His signature was the first to be included on the modern sized United States paper money as Treasurer of the United States.
Managing money seems to have run in this family, H. T. Tate's brother Ernest having served as Treasurer of the Southern Railway
, headquartered at 15th and K Street N.W. in Washington, D.C.
, just a few blocks away from the United States Department of the Treasury
.
Siblings H.T. Tate and Ernest Tate were, respectively, the grand-uncle and grandfather of radio broadcaster, David Tate
.
Treasurer of the United States
The Treasurer of the United States is an official in the United States Department of the Treasury that was originally charged with the receipt and custody of government funds, though many of these functions have been taken over by different bureaus of the Department of the Treasury...
from May 31, 1928 until January 17, 1929, serving under President Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...
. While holding that post, his duties included being the signatory on United States currency.
He was the son of Allen S. Tate and Ariana Peck Tate of Grainger County, Tennessee. He had previously served as Deputy Treasurer of the United States, and one of his duties in that post included signing the President's paycheck. His signature was the first to be included on the modern sized United States paper money as Treasurer of the United States.
Managing money seems to have run in this family, H. T. Tate's brother Ernest having served as Treasurer of the Southern Railway
Southern Railway (US)
The Southern Railway is a former United States railroad. It was the product of nearly 150 predecessor lines that were combined, reorganized and recombined beginning in the 1830s, formally becoming the Southern Railway in 1894...
, headquartered at 15th and K Street N.W. in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
, just a few blocks away from the United States Department of the Treasury
United States Department of the Treasury
The Department of the Treasury is an executive department and the treasury of the United States federal government. It was established by an Act of Congress in 1789 to manage government revenue...
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Siblings H.T. Tate and Ernest Tate were, respectively, the grand-uncle and grandfather of radio broadcaster, David Tate
David Tate (radio broadcaster)
David Helene Tate served as President/CEO of Rantel Research, Inc. of Laurel, MD, a broadcast radio audience marketing company, from 1979-1997. Rantel's area of professional specialization was mostly in radio formats targeted at young-adult audiences as measured by Arbitron of Columbia, MD...
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Sources
- Leaves from the Family Tree, by Penelope Johnson Allen, reprinted in The Chattanooga Sunday Times, December 6, 1936 (This article erroneously names Oscar Tate as Treasurer of the United States. Oscar was the brother of H. T. Tate.).
- Excerpts from History of Tennessee, The Goodspeed Publishing Co., Nashville, TN 1887.