Bray Hammond

Bray Hammond (1886 — 1968) was an American author and assistant secretary of Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System between the years of 1944 and 1950.^[1]

Authored books

Sovereignty and an Empty Purse: Banks and Politics in the Civil War
Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War, for which Hammond won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1958.^[2]

Pulitzer Prize for History (1951–1975)

R. Carlyle Buley (1951) Oscar Handlin (1952) George Dangerfield (1953) Bruce Catton (1954) Paul Horgan (1955) Richard Hofstadter (1956) George F. Kennan (1957) Bray Hammond (1958) Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider (1959) Margaret Leech (1960) Herbert Feis (1961) Lawrence H. Gipson (1962) Constance McLaughlin Green (1963) Sumner Chilton Powell (1964) Irwin Unger (1965) Perry Miller (1966) William H. Goetzmann (1967) Bernard Bailyn (1968) Leonard Levy (1969) Dean Acheson (1970) James MacGregor Burns (1971) Carl Neumann Degler (1972) Michael Kammen (1973) Daniel J. Boorstin (1974) Dumas Malone (1975)

Complete list (1917–1925) (1926–1950) (1951–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–2025)