born Aug. 19, 1870, Camden, S.C., U.S.
died June 20, 1965, New York, N.Y.
U.S. financier and adviser to presidents.
After graduating from the College of the City of New York in 1889, he went to work in Wall Street brokerage houses, where he amassed a fortune as a speculator. During World War I he was appointed chairman of the War Industries Board by Pres. Woodrow Wilson . In 1919 he was a member of the Supreme Economic Council at the Paris Peace Conference at Versailles and one of Wilson's advisers on the terms of peace. During World War II he served as an unofficial adviser on economic mobilization to Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt . Later he was instrumental in setting UN policy on the international control of atomic energy.