William Alexander Julian

Signature of William Alexander Julian

William Alexander Julian (born August 6, 1870 in Franklin County , Kentucky , † May 29, 1949 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American banker, businessman and government official.

Career

William Alexander Julian was born and raised on a farm in Franklin County about five years after the end of the Civil War . Nothing is known about his youth. Julian graduated from Dodds College in Frankfort, Franklin County. He then moved to Ohio and settled in Cincinnati ( Hamilton County down), where he served as Clerk worked in a bank. He later opened a tiny shoe factory on Eighth and Main Streets. Most recently, he was President of the Julian & Kokenge Company, the national shoe manufacturer in the so-called daylight factory on Fourth Street not far from Pike Street in Cincinnati. Julian was the Vice President of Citizens National Bank and President of the Queen City Trust Company for many years . He was also the first president of the First National Bank in Bethel, Ohio.

He was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1920 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the US Senate . He participated in the Democratic National Conventions as a delegate for Ohio in 1924, 1932, 1940 and 1948 . President Franklin D. Roosevelt named him Treasurer of the United States . Julian was reappointed by President Harry S. Truman . He held the post from June 1, 1933 until his death in 1949. On May 29, 1949 he died in a car accident in Bethesda, Montgomery County .

He was married to Gertrude Means, daughter of a former mayor of Cincinnati. The marriage remained childless. She died on March 26, 1948 at the age of 80.

literature

• Julian, US Treasurer, Is Killed In Crash , Schenectady Gazette, May 30, 1949
• Cincinnati, a Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors , Best Books on, 1943, ISBN 9781623760519 , p. 360 (different year of birth)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ William Alexander Julian on the Treasury.gov website