Shaw, Leslie M. (1848-1933)

SHAW

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 6/16/2021 at 22:40:43

From Simpson College 1931 Zenith Yearbook
The following men and women have been selected as typical of the outstanding recognition achieved by alumni of Simpson College in representative fields of endeavor:

GOVERNMENT - Leslie M. Shaw (November 2, 1848 – September 10, 1933)
Leslie Mortier Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States in the cabinet of President Roosevelt; Governor of the State of Iowa, 1898-1902; permanent chairman of International Monetary Convention, Indianapolis, 1898; practiced law at Denison, Iowa, 1876-1897; engaged in banking at Denison, Manilla, and Charter Oak, Iowa, 1880; made Doctor of Laws by Simpson College, 1898; by Cornell College, 1899; by Wesleyan University, 1904; by Dickinson College, 1908; lecturer and author; class of 1876. [Read his biography in Biographical Dictionary of Iowa, University of Iowa Press, 2018.]

Leslie M. Shaw
 

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