Background
MELLON, Andrew William was born on March 24, 1855 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Son of Thomas and Sarah (Negley) Mellon
Industrialist philanthropist secretary of the treasury art collector American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, and Secretary of the Treasury
MELLON, Andrew William was born on March 24, 1855 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Son of Thomas and Sarah (Negley) Mellon
University of Pittsburgh, 1873
Fundraising
During World War I he participated in many fundraising activities for such as the American Red Cross, the National War Council of the Y.M.C.A., the Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania State Council of National Defense, and the National Research Council of Washington.
Cabinet secretary
Andrew Mellon was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by new President Warren G. Harding in 1921. He served for ten years and eleven months; the third-longest tenure of a Secretary of the Treasury. His service continued through the Coolidge and Hoover administrations. Along with James Wilson and James J. Davis, he is one of only three Cabinet members to serve in the same post under three consecutive Presidents.
President Harding, in his inaugural address on March 4, 1921, called for a prompt and thorough revision of the tax system, an emergency tariff act, readjustment of war taxes, and creation of a federal budget system. These were policies Mellon wholeheartedly subscribed to, and his long experience as a banker qualified him to set about implementing these programs immediately. As a conservative Republican and a financier, Mellon was irritated by the manner in which the government's budget was maintained, with expenses due now and rising rapidly, with the failure of income or revenues to keep pace with those expense increases, and with the lack of savings.
Impeachment proceedings
In January 1932, Rep. Wright Patman and others introduced articles of impeachment against Mellon,[12] with hearings before the House Judiciary Committee at the end of that month.[13] After the hearings were over, but before the scheduled vote on whether to report the articles to the full House, Mellon accepted an appointment to the post of Ambassador to the Court of St. James and resigned in February. He served for one year and then retired to private life. Representative Louis Thomas McFadden invoked Mellon's appointment while an impeachment was pending in his subsequent attempt to impeach President Hoover.
spouse Nora McMullen.