Conrad N. Jordan

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Conrad N. Jordan (born April 20, 1830 in New York City , † February 26, 1903 ) was an American banker and government official. He belonged to the Democratic Party .

Career

Conrad N. Jordan was born in New York City several years before the Great Depression of 1837 . It is not known about his childhood. At the age of 13 he started working in a printing company and became a typesetter. He pursued this activity until 1852. At that time he became a clerk in the Hanover Bank of New York. Over time, he was promoted to chief accountant. He later moved to Fishkill ( New York ), where he got a leading position in the local bank. During this time he met Samuel J. Tilden and had a long-term business relationship and friendship with him. When the National Western Bank of New York was founded in 1864 during the Civil War , he began working there as a cashier. Jordan became an expert in public accounting and currency exchange. On Black Friday of 1869 , Jordan was working as an auditor for the bankruptcy administrator of the Gold Exchange Bank . In 1880, in part because of his relationship with Tilden, Jordan became treasurer of the New York, Ontario and Western Railway. He subsequently unsuccessfully lobbyed the New York State Legislature to create an entity known as the United States Exchange and Transfer Company that would serve as a nationwide clearing house. Jordan supported Grover Cleveland in the run-up to the 1884 presidential election and served on the campaign team that worked out plans to reform the United States Treasury Department . Following the appointment of Daniel Manning as the new Treasury Secretary , President Cleveland nominated Jordan for the post of Treasurer of the United States . Jordan took up his new post on May 1, 1885 and held it until March 23, 1887. In 1887, he became President of the Western National Bank of New York. His involvement in the Pell-Simmons Syndicate was an attempt to usurp the Sixth National Bank . President Cleveland named Jordan Assistant Treasurer of the United States in April 1893 . Following the election of William McKinley in the 1896 presidential election , numerous bankers, including the new Treasury Secretary, Lyman J. Gage , pressed for Jordan to be kept as Assistant Treasurer of the United States. Jordan was reappointed in April 1897.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John W. Leonard and Albert Nelson Marquis: Who's who in America , Volume 1, AN Marquis, 1899, p. 389
  2. ^ Conrad N. Jordan , The New York Times, October 17, 1897