Bray Hammond (November 20, 1886 – July 20, 1968) was an American financial historian and assistant secretary to the

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of the

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in 1944–1950. He won the 1958

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for '' Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War'' (1957). He was educated at

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Books

* '' Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War'' (Princeton University Press, 1957) * ''Sovereignty and an Empty Purse: Banks and Politics in the Civil War'' (Princeton, 1970)

References

External links

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The Papers of Bray Hammond
at Dartmouth College Library 1886 births 1968 deaths 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers American social sciences writers Pulitzer Prize for History winners Writers from Springfield, Missouri 20th-century American male writers {{US-historian-stub