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  1. John Wesley Snyder. John Wesley Snyder (June 21, 1895 – October 8, 1985) was an American businessman and senior federal government official. Thanks to a close personal friendship with President Harry S Truman, Snyder became Secretary of the Treasury in the Truman administration. He is the first native-born Arkansan to hold a US Cabinet post. [1]

  2. John W. Snyder (1895 - 1985) came to Washington in the early 1930's with a broad background in banking and business. He held several public and private positions including National Bank Receiver in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Loan Administrator, and Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion. In the last office he played a leading part in the transition of the ...

  3. John W. Snyder (1946–1953) John Wesley Snyder was born on June 21, 1895, in Jonesboro, Arkansas. He attended Vanderbilt University for a year but left to join the Army in 1915. While serving in World War I, Snyder met Harry S. Truman. In 1936, he began working for the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Reconstruction ...

  4. Oral History Interview with John W. Snyder Secretary of the Treasury in the Truman Administration, 1946-53. Other Federal positions once held include Executive Vice-President and Director, Defense Plant Corporation, 1940-43; Assistant to the Director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1940-44; Federal Loan Administrator, 1945; Director, Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, 1945-46.

  5. Oral History Interviews with John W. Snyder Secretary of the Treasury in the Truman Administration, 1946-53. Other Federal positions once held include Executive Vice-President and Director, Defense Plant Corporation, 1940-43; Assistant to the Director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1940-44; Federal Loan Administrator, 1945; Director, Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion ...

  6. By Jerry N. Hess. [975] Twenty-fifth Oral History Interview with John W. Snyder, Washington, D.C., January 15, 1969. By Jerry N. Hess, Harry S. Truman Library. HESS: Secretary Snyder, in George Kennan's Memoirs pages 458 to 462, he speaks with considerable directness of the involvement of the Treasury Department, and yourself in particular, in ...

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  8. OralHistory Interview with John W. Snyder Washington, D.C., May 7, 1969 By Jerry N. Hess. HESS: Mr. Snyder, what do you recall about the problems involving debt management in 1951? SNYDER: Well, Mr. Hess, the so-called "problems," frankly, should have never developed, other than just the natural problems of handling any difficult problem such ...

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