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George Alfred Trenholm
2nd Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury
In office July 18, 1864 – April 27, 1865
Preceded by	Christopher Memminger
Succeeded by	John Henninger Reagan
Born	February 25, 1807(1807-02-25) Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
Died	December 9, 1876 (aged 69) Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Profession	Politician

George Alfred Trenholm (February 25, 1807 – December 9, 1876) was a prominent politician in the Confederate States of America.

George Alfred Trenholm was born in Charleston, South Carolina. At the age of sixteen he left school and went to work for a major cotton broker, John Fraser & Co. in Charleston. By 1853 he was head of the company. When the Civil War broke out, John Fraser & Co. became the Confederate government's overseas banker and financed its own fleet of blockade runners. Trenholm was appointed Confederate Secretary of the Treasury on July 18, 1864. He fled Richmond with the rest of the government in April, 1865. Due to illness he resigned on April 27, 1865. He was later briefly imprisoned at Fort Pulaski near Savannah, Georgia.^{citation needed}

Bibliography

• Treasures of the Confederate Coast: The "Real Rhett Butler" & Other Revelations - E. Lee Spence ISBN 1886391017

• The Confederate Navy In Europe - Warren F Spencer ISBN 0-8173-0861-X

• The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe - James D Bulloch ISBN 0679-64022-3

• George Alfred Trenholm and the Company That Went to War - pub 1973- Ethel S Nepveux

• George A Trenholm Financial Genius of the Confederacy - pub 1999 - Ethel S Nepveux ISBN 0-9668843-1-0

v • d • e Cabinet of President Jefferson Davis (1861-1865) Vice President Alexander H. Stephens (1861-1865) Secretary of State Robert Toombs (1861) • Robert M. T. Hunter (1861-1862) • Judah P. Benjamin (1862-1865) Secretary of the Treasury Christopher Memminger (1861-1864) • George A. Trenholm (1864-1865) • John H. Reagan (1865) Secretary of War Leroy P. Walker (1861) • Judah P. Benjamin (1861-1862) • George W. Randolph (1862) • James A. Seddon (1862-1865) • John C. Breckinridge (1865) Secretary of the Navy Stephen R. Mallory (1861-1865) Postmaster General John H. Reagan (1861-1865) Attorney General Judah P. Benjamin (1861) • Thomas Bragg (1861-1862) • Thomas H. Watts (1862-1863) • George Davis (1864-1865)

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