OVERVIEW:

BORN:
February 17, 1866
Monroe, North Carolina

DIED:
September 2, 1940 (age 74)
New York, New York

EDUCATION:
University of South Carolina, Columbia (BA, 1887)
Harvard University (MA in Political Science, 1892 )

POLITICAL PARTY:
Democrat

CAREER:
1902-1905:
President of Texas A&M University
1905-1908:
President of University of Texas- Austin
1908-1913:
Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis
1913-1920:
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
1920-1921:
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Ex-Officio Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board
1921-1927:
President, Bell Telephone Securities Company;
Financial Vice President, AT&T
1927-1940:
President, Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York;
Member of the Board of Overseers, Harvard University;
Trustee, Columbia University

PORTRAITS:

RESOURCES:

Secretary of Agriculture Dave Franklin Houston with Attorney General James C. McReynolds in 1914 (Photographer: Harris & Ewing, Library of Congress)

Miller Center
University of Texas
Texas State Historical Association
Federal Reserve History
Department of the Treasury
Washington University
NCPedia
Wikipedia
Eight Years with Wilson’s Cabinet (Memoirs)