Wayne Chatfield-Taylor

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Wayne Chatfield-Taylor
Herbert Gaston
Personal details
Born(1893-12-19)December 19, 1893
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
DiedNovember 22, 1967(1967-11-22) (aged 73)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Resting placeRock Creek Cemetery
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Spouse
Adele Margaret Blow
​
(m. 1917)​
Relations
Rose Chatfield-Taylor
Hobart Chatfield-Taylor
ResidenceYork Hall
EducationSt. Mark's School
Alma materYale University

Wayne Chatfield-Taylor (December 19, 1893 – November 22, 1967)

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt
.

Early life

Chatfield-Taylor was born in

Rose (née Farwell) Chatfield-Taylor and Hobart Chatfield-Taylor, an author and biographer who was considered a top authority on Molière.[2] His siblings were Robert, Otis, and the eldest, Adelaide (wife of Hendricks Hallett Whitman and William Davies Sohier and grandmother of Meg Whitman).[3] After his mother died in 1918, his father married Estelle (née Barbour) Stillman, the widow of George S. Stillman and daughter of George Harrison Barbour,[4] in 1920.[5][6]

His paternal grandparents were Henry Hobart Taylor and Adelaide (

Reginald de Koven.[8]

Wayne was a graduate of

U.S. Army.[1]

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 Charles G. Dawes before he became Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge). Later, he worked for Field, 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.[1]

He also served the government in administrative and advisory capacities from 1933 to 1952. He first joined President

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. in 1936.[9][10] He resigned in February 1939 over differences over Treasury policies with Secretary Morgenthau to become the European delegate of the American Red Cross.[11]

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

Export–Import Bank Act of 1945.[20][21]

Later economic advisor to

European Recovery Program (better known as the Marshall Plan) after World War II.[1]

Personal life

Chatfield-Taylor's residence, York Hall in Yorktown, Virginia

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

Nantucket, Massachusetts, and Mantua, a classic structure in Heathsville, Virginia.[22][24]

Chatfield-Taylor died at the Washington Medical Center in Washington, D.C. on November 22, 1967.[1] He was buried at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington. His widow died on August 31, 1977, in Greenwich, Connecticut and was buried at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.[22]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Wayne Chatfield Taylor Dead; Roosevelt and Truman Aide, 73; Banker Held Major Posts in Commerce, Treasury and the Export-Import Bank In Many Public Posts Envoy at Trade Meetings". The New York Times. 23 November 1967. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Brief Reviews of Lately Published Books". The New York Times. 17 April 1909. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  3. ^ "Meg Whitman to Wed June 7". The New York Times. 20 April 1980. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  4. ^ The Metal Worker, Plumber, and Steam Fitter. D. Williams Company. 1920. p. 51. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  5. ^ a b "H.C. Chatfield-Taylor; Author, Authority on Moliere, Dies in California at 80". The New York Times. 17 January 1945. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  6. ISBN 978-0-253-10841-8
    . Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  7. ISBN 978-1-4396-5400-2
    . Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  8. ^ "De Koven, Anna Farwell". woodmereartmuseum.org. Woodmere Art Museum. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  9. ^ "W.C. Taylor Chosen for Treasury Post; Chicagoan to Leave Export-Import Banks for Assistant Secretaryship". The New York Times. 13 February 1936. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  10. ^ "W.C. Taylor New Treasury Aide". The New York Times. 14 February 1936. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  11. ^ "W.C. Taylor in View as Aide to Clayton". The New York Times. 4 April 1945. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  12. ^ "Wayne Chatfield-Taylor". chronicles.dickinson.edu.
  13. ^ Wayne Chatfield Taylor Named Undersecretary of Commerce
  14. ^ "World Commerce Program is Given; Chatfield-Taylor Tells Foreign Traders Pattern of Pan-Americanism Is Key". The New York Times. 19 May 1942. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  15. History
    . November 16, 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  16. ^ "FDR seizes control of Montgomery Ward Dec. 27, 1944". Politico. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  17. ^ "Talked of for Bank Post; W.C. Taylor's Selection for Export-Import Forecast". The New York Times. 6 April 1945. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  18. ^ "Taylor Resigns Commerce Post; Named Wallace Aide". The New York Times. 12 April 1945. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  19. ^ "Taylor Heads Trade Bank". The New York Times. 13 April 1945. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  20. ^ "EXIM History". Export Import Bank of the United States. Archived from the original on January 23, 2015. Retrieved August 7, 2013.
  21. ^ Austin, Kenneth (4 November 1945). "Federal Bank Aid to Foreign Trade; Export-Import's Policies of Spreading Credit Explained by Wayne C. Taylor Will Use Business Banks Loans Made Only to Promote United States' Commerce, With Safeguards". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  22. ^ a b c "Adele Chatfield Taylor, Civic Aide". The New York Times. 3 September 1977. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  23. ISBN 9780393730999
    .
  24. ISBN 978-0-8139-1491-6
    . Retrieved 6 June 2020.

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