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William Gibbs McAdoo Jr. is an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 29th president of the United States from 1921 to 1929. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 46th Secretary of the Treasury under his father-in-law Woodrow Wilson. Born in Marietta, Georgia to a prominent Southern family, McAdoo attended the University of Tennessee and was admitted to the bar ...
"The notable career of William Gibbs McAdoo (1863-1941) has long awaited the definitive study this volume presents. A perennial candidate for the Democratic nomination for president between 1920 and 1932, neither his autobiography, Crowded Years, nor the many references to his life and actions by historians of the United States in the twentieth century have yet demonstrated so convincingly ...
8 de oct. de 2017 · William Gibbs McAdoo, a leading figure in American politics in the early twentieth century, began his political career in Chattanooga in the 1880s. He was born in Marietta, Georgia, in 1863, but later moved with his family to Knoxville, where his father taught at the University of Tennessee. McAdoo attended that institution for three years ...
that William Gibbs McAdoo was, next to Woodrow Wilson, "the ablest and most energetic member of the Administration." He continued that he only needed access to the McAdoo papers to make his "re? searches complete" for the purpose of a multi-volume study of Wilson and his times. The collection, presented to the Library by Mr. Francis H. McAdoo in
Broesamle, , William Gibbs McAdoo, 16 – 31 Google Scholar. McAdoo , William G. , Crowded Years: The Reminiscences of William G. McAdoo ( Boston , 1931 ), 71 – 108 Google Scholar . For a discussion that places this episode within the context of New York transit politics, see Clifton Hood, 722 Miles : The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York ( New York , 1993 ), 145 ...
Abstract. This dissertation is a biography of William Gibbs McAdoo, one of the most important American political leaders in the 20th century, but one of the least known, despite a set of achievements that greatly affected the American polity at the time they occurred, and have continued to generate effects in the following generations.
2 McAdoo's autobiography, Crowded Years: The Reminiscences of W tiltam Cr. McAdoo (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931), ends in 1919 when he resigned from the Wilson administration. A good short account of his life is Joseph C. Vance, "The William Gibbs McAdoo Papers," The Library of Congress Journal of Acquisitions, XV (May, 1958), 168-176.
