Ogden Livingston Mills

Ogden Mills was a Harvard Law School graduate, a State Senator in New York, a Captain in the Army during World War I, and a Representative for New York in the United States House of Representatives. He also served as Undersecretary of the Treasury under President Coolidge and Secretary of the Treasury under President Hoover.

Mr. Mills was big on the gold standard, perhaps the last person to hold the job who could (and did) effectively lobby for an adherence to "hard money." Given the depression during his term in office, this probably wasn't a hugely popular position to be taking.

After leaving office, he wrote a couple of anti-New Deal books and spent his final years on the lecture circuit.