Woodin, William Hartman, , Pennsylvania 1868 1934 Male Secretary of Treasury secretary of the treasury, was born at Berwick, Pa. , the son of Clemuel Ricketts and Mary Louise (Dickerman) Woodin.
He entered his father's plant as a molder and cleaner of castings, became general superintendent in 1892, and in 1899 president of the Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company at Berwick.
William was educated at the Woodbridge School in New York City and the School of Mines of Columbia University, where he was a member of the class of 1890 but did not graduate.
Woodin's task was both to restore confidence and to carry out Roosevelt's financial and monetary policies, which involved a sharp break, at many points, from those of his predecessors.
In November 1933 he issued a statement affirming his faith in the "New Deal" and his loyalty to his chief.
On Dec. 13, 1933, he again tendered his resignation, which the President finally accepted on Dec. 20, making public its acceptance on Jan. 1, 1934.
1933), and the "Franklin Delano Roosevelt March, " played at his friend's inauguration.
[Charles Miller and John Chapman, "Woodin Notes: Avocations of a Financier, " Saturday Evening Post, Oct. 14, 1933; "Composer Enters the Roosevelt Cabinet, " Musician, Mar. 1933; Clinton Gilbert, "Lucky Woodin, " Collier's, Apr. 29, 1933; Who's Who in America, 1932-33; Étude, Aug. 1934; N. Y. Times, Feb. 22, 1933, May 4, 1934. ]
Though he belonged to the conservative school that viewed with mistrust some of the financial policies of the Roosevelt Administration, his personal relations with the President remained as warm as ever.
A fellow trustee of the Warm Springs Foundation, he was a close personal friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and though previously a Republican, he gave Roosevelt his active support in the presidential campaign of 1932, after the election becoming one of the inner circle of Roosevelt's advisers.
Since 1835, when his grandfather established a foundry at Berwick, the family had been engaged in the production of iron.
He married Annie Jessup of Montrose, Pa., on Oct. 9, 1889, and was survived by his wife, three daughters, and a son.
He married Annie Jessup of Montrose, Pa., on Oct. 9, 1889, and was survived by his wife, three daughters, and a son.
Some of his children's pieces were published as Raggedy Ann's Sunny Songs, in December 1930; other works were "A Norwegian Rhapsody" (Étude, August 1934), "The Fire Chief" (copr.
