George Trenholm

George Trenholm

Infobox US Cabinet official
name=George Alfred Trenholm


order=2nd
title=Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury
term_start=July 18, 1864
term_end=April 27, 1865
predecessor=Christopher Memminger
successor=John Henninger Reagan
birth_date=birth date|1807|2|25|mf=y
birth_place=Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
death_date=death date and age|1876|12|9|1807|2|25|mf=y
death_place=Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
party=Democrat
spouse=
profession=Politician
religion=

George Alfred Trenholm (February 25, 1807 – December 9, 1876) was a prominent politician in the Confederate States of America.

George Alfred Trenholm was born in Charleston, South Carolina. At the age of sixteen he left school and went to work for a major cotton broker, John Fraser & Co. in Charleston. By 1853 he was head of the company. When the Civil War broke out, John Fraser & Co. became the Confederate government's overseas banker and financed its own fleet of blockade runners. Trenholm was appointed Confederate Secretary of the Treasury on July 18, 1864. He fled Richmond with the rest of the government in April, 1865. Due to illness he resigned on April 27, 1865. He was later briefly imprisoned at Fort Pulaski near Savannah, Georgia.

Bibliography

* "Treasures of the Confederate Coast: The "Real Rhett Butler" & Other Revelations" - E. Lee Spence ISBN 1886391017

* "The Confederate Navy In Europe" - Warren F Spencer ISBN 0-8173-0861-X

* "The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe" - James D Bulloch ISBN 0679-64022-3

* "George Alfred Trenholm and the Company That Went to War" - pub 1973- Ethel S Nepveux

* "George A Trenholm Financial Genius of the Confederacy" - pub 1999 - Ethel S Nepveux ISBN 0-9668843-1-0

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