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William Morris Meredith (June 8, 1799 – August 17, 1873) was an American lawyer and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served as the United States Secretary of the Treasury, during President Zachary Taylor 's Administration.
El poeta William Morris Meredith Jr. falleció el pasado miércoles a los 88 años de edad, víctima de una insuficiencia cardiaca y respiratoria.
President Zachary Taylor, wanting a Pennsylvanian Whig for his Cabinet, appointed William M. Meredith (1799 - 1873) Secretary of the Treasury. Meredith strongly opposed the free-trade legislation passed the year before under his predecessor, Robert J. Walker.
From 1834 to 1839, he was president of the Select Council of Philadelphia, also attending the 1837 state constitutional convention as a delegate. In 1840, after campaigning hard for presidential candidate William Henry Harrison, Meredith was named U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Acclaimed poet William Meredith wrote formal, disciplined poetry of cool observation, intelligence, and wit. A Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, and later the Poet Laureate Consulate in Poetry to the Library of Congress, Meredith was also a Director and Chancellor of the Academy of…
William Morris Meredith Jr. (January 9, 1919 – May 30, 2007) was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980, [1] and the recipient of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry .
William M. Meredith, professor of psychology, emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and an internationally renowned psychometrician, died at his El Cerrito home on December 4, 2006. He was 77.
