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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).
As a boy he decided to abandon his parents' farming lifestyle for law and banking in the city after reading Benjamin Franklin's autobiography. Andrew William Mellon (1855–1937), banker, one of the longest-serving U.S. Treasury secretaries in history; namesake of the Andrew Mellon Building and Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, both in Washington, D.C.
Scaife was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Alan Magee Scaife, the head of an affluent Pittsburgh family, and Sarah Cordelia Mellon, who was a member of the influential Mellon family, one of the most powerful families in the country. [6] Sarah was the niece of former United States Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon.
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.
Richard King Mellon (June 19, 1899 – June 3, 1970), [1] commonly known as R.K., was an American financier, general, and philanthropist from Ligonier, Pennsylvania, and part of the Mellon family. Biography
Then-White House counselor Kellyanne Conway tapes her speech for the third day of the Republican National Convention from the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., Aug. 26, 2020. (Susan ...
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.
The illegal trade in alcohol (then still under Prohibition) and illicit drugs was targeted by the Treasury, not primarily as social evils that fell under other government purview, but as losses of untaxed revenue. Appointed by department Secretary Andrew W. Mellon, who was his wife's uncle, Anslinger was given a budget of $100,000 and wide scope.