1. Wayne Chatfield-Taylor was an American government official who was Under Secretary of Commerce from 1940 to 1945 and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from 1936 to 1939 under President Franklin D Roosevelt.
14 Facts About Wayne Chatfield-Taylor
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Wayne Chatfield-Taylor was one of four children born to Rose Chatfield-Taylor and Hobart Chatfield-Taylor, an author and biographer who was considered a top authority on Moliere.
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Wayne Chatfield-Taylor's siblings were Robert, Otis, and the eldest, Adelaide.
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Wayne Chatfield-Taylor's father added "Chatfield" to his surname as the stipulation of a large inheritance from his maternal uncle, Wayne Chatfield.
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Wayne Chatfield-Taylor was a graduate of St Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts and of Yale University.
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Wayne Chatfield-Taylor was vice president of the Chicago Investors corporation and a director of the People's Trust and Savings Bank.
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Wayne Chatfield-Taylor served the government in administrative and advisory capacities from 1933 to 1952.
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Wayne Chatfield-Taylor first joined President Franklin D Roosevelt's New Deal administration in 1933 as assistant to the Administrator of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration before becoming special advisor to the President on foreign affairs.
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Wayne Chatfield-Taylor resigned in February 1939 over differences over Treasury policies with Secretary Morgenthau to become the European delegate of the American Red Cross.
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Later economic advisor to Paul G Hoffman in setting up the Economic Cooperation Administration, Chatfield-Taylor was economic advisor to the European Recovery Program after World War II.
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Wayne Chatfield-Taylor built the noted 1925 Lake Forest, Illinois mansion "Bluff's Edge" located at 620 Lake Road.
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Wayne Chatfield-Taylor died at the Washington Medical Center in Washington, DC on November 22,1967.
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Wayne Chatfield-Taylor was buried at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington.
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Wayne Chatfield-Taylor's widow died on August 31,1977, in Greenwich, Connecticut and was buried at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.