Christopher Gustavus Memminger

Christopher Gustavus Memminger ( January 9, 1803 – March 7, 1888) was a German-born American politician and a secessionist who participated in the Confederate States. He was the principal author of the Provisional Constitution (1861) as well as the founder of the Confederate financial system. As the first Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury, Memminger was the main author of the economic policies of Jefferson Davis's administration.
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