This man closed the New York Stock Exchange for nearly four months in his highest political office, in which he was succeeded by Carter Glass in 1918.
This man led the Citizens Railway Company that fought the "Battle at Depot Street" with rival politician C.C. Howell. He promulgated General Order 27, which mandated equal pay for black and white railroad employees, as president of the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company, in which role he also completed the first tunnel under the Hudson River. Late in life, this author of the memoir The Crowded Years divorced his wife and married a 26-year-old nurse while serving as a U.S. senator from California. Though he led on the first ballot, his political hopes were dashed for a second time at the Klanbake Convention, where he was supported by the KKK, and both he and his rival Al Smith lost the nomination to John W. Davis. This man closed the New York Stock Exchange for nearly four months in his highest political office, in which he was succeeded by Carter Glass in 1918. For 10 points, name this man who married Eleanor Wilson while serving as Secretary of the Treasury under her dad Woodrow.
This man led the Citizens Railway Company that fought the "Battle at Depot Street" with rival politician C.C. Howell.
William Gibbs McAdoo