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The Mellon family is a wealthy and influential American family from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.The family includes Andrew Mellon, one of the longest serving U.S. Treasury Secretaries, along with famous members in the judicial, banking, financial, business, and political professions.
Washington, D.C., also hosts the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium and the Andrew Mellon Building. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the product of the merger of the Avalon Foundation and the Old Dominion Foundation (set up separately by his children), is named in his honor, as is the 378-foot US Coast Guard Cutter Mellon (WHEC-717).
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, commonly known as the Mellon Foundation, is a New York City-based private foundation with wealth accumulated by Andrew Mellon of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [2] It is the product of the 1969 merger of the Avalon Foundation and the Old Dominion Foundation.
The Mellon family is a wealthy and influential family originally of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., and its vicinity.. In addition to their ownership of Mellon Bank as well as founding both Kennywood Park and Idlewild Park, they were long known for their de facto control of Gulf Oil, Alcoa, Koppers, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Reviewnewspaper, Westinghouse, and major influence in H.J. Heinz ...
Ailsa was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on June 28, 1901.She was the daughter of the banker and diplomat Andrew W. Mellon and Nora Mary (née McMullen) Mellon. Her parents divorced in 1912 and from 1921 to 1932, Ailsa served as her father's official hostess during his tenure as United States Secretary of the Treasury, and again when he was U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom in 1932–1933.
Mellon’s grandfather Andrew was Treasury secretary from 1921 to 1932. In that role, he cut taxes for America’s wealthiest and successfully campaigned to remove any estate taxes so that he ...
Timothy Mellon (born July 22, 1942) is an American businessman, the grandson of Andrew Mellon, and an heir to the Mellon banking fortune. [1] As of June 2024, Forbes estimated the Mellon family's net worth at $14.1 billion. [2] He is a major donor to the Republican Party.
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