1. Thomas Lee "Bum" McClung was an American college football player and coach who later served as the 22nd Treasurer of the United States.
20 Facts About Lee McClung
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Lee McClung's father was Frank H McClung, a merchant, and he was related to Albert Sidney Johnston and John Marshall.
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Lee McClung continued his education at Yale University, where he was a member of the Yale Bulldogs football team.
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Lee McClung is thought to have designed the cutback play.
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Lee McClung was captain of the unscored-upon Yale football team of 1891, graduating the following year with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
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Lee McClung never left a game during injury, despite football being considerably rougher at the time.
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Lee McClung was a class leader, received the largest number of votes as its most popular member in his senior year, and was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society.
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Lee McClung was chairman of his class's Junior Promenade Committee.
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Lee McClung returned to New Haven in the fall for many years to assist in coaching.
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Lee McClung spent the year after graduation traveling in Europe and California, where he became the second coach at the University of California.
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Lee McClung became assistant freight traffic manager of the company in 1902, and retained this position until 1904, when he was appointed treasurer of Yale University, assuming that office on December 15,1904.
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Lee McClung served until his resignation of November 14,1912 became effective a week later.
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Lee McClung resigned his post because of a dispute in the Treasury Department, a so-called "mutiny" led by A Piatt Andrew, then Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, who had troubles with Secretary Franklin MacVeagh which involved McClung.
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MacVeagh asked Lee McClung to repudiate Andrew's statement concerning him, but he refused, and relations between them became strained.
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However, President Taft called a truce at the Treasury until after the election that year, with Lee McClung announcing his resignation nine days after Taft's decisive defeat.
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Lee McClung was a director of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, a director of the Marion Institute of Alabama, a national councilman of the Boy Scouts of America, and treasurer of the American Association for Highway Improvement.
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Lee McClung was a member of the Metropolitan, Riding, and Chevy Chase Clubs of Washington, the University Club of New York City, and the Graduates and New Haven Lawn Clubs of New Haven.
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Lee McClung was elected president of the Yale Alumni Association of Washington on December 22,1910.
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Lee McClung died in a private hospital in London after a three-months' illness of typhoid fever contracted at Frankfurt.
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Lee McClung's body was returned to the United States on board the steamer St Paul, which left Liverpool on December 26,1914.