Bray Hammond

Bray Hammond
Born	(1886-11-20)November 20, 1886
Died	July 20, 1968(1968-07-20) (aged 81)
Notable works	Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (1957)
Notable awards	1958 Pulitzer Prize for History

Bray Hammond (November 20, 1886 – July 20, 1968) was an American financial historian and assistant secretary to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 1944–1950.[1] He won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for History for Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (1957).[2] He was educated at Stanford University.

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)[3]

References

1. Hammond, Bray (1991). Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-00553-2.
2. "The 1958 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved October 8, 2019.
3. Hammond, Bray (2014). Sovereignty and an Empty Purse: Banks and Politics in the Civil War. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-5535-3.

External links

• Bray Hammond at Library of Congress, with 2 library catalog records
• The Papers of Bray Hammond at Dartmouth College Library