Andrew W. Mellon

This Andrew W. Mellon stamp features a portrait of American businessman Andrew W. Mellon. Mellon was in 1855 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He joined his father’s banking firm T. Mellon and Sons and later helped organize other banks in the Pittsburgh region. He aided and invested in some industrial organizations, including the Aluminum Company of America, the Gulf Oil Corporation, and the Union Steel Company. In the 1920s, he was ranked as one of the wealthiest people in the United States. Mellon was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Warren G. Harding in 1921 and continued to serve under Presidents Coolidge and Hoover.