Lyman J. Gage – Secretary of the Treasury under William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt was a former bank president, who ascended the organization after beginning as a cashier
The decision to appoint Wilkie was made by Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage, who wanted to experiment with placing a newspaper man at the head of the bureau.
Like his predecessor Secretary Lyman Gage, Shaw firmly believed that the Treasury should serve the money market in times of difficulty through the introduction of Treasury funds.
Afterwards be became successively assistant cashier, vice-president and president of the First National Bank of Chicago, one of the strongest financial institutions in the Middle West.
Thomas Gage | Kevin Lyman | George Lyman Kittredge | Lyman J. Gage | Lyman Beecher | James Lyman | Cadillac Gage Commando | Sir William Gage, 7th Baronet | Mel Lyman | Lyman, Wyoming | Lyman Page | William Hall Gage | Sir William Gage | Richard Wall Lyman | Nicolas Gage, 8th Viscount Gage | Lyman Spitzer | Lyman E. Johnson | Lyman | John Goodwin Lyman | John B. Gage | Henry Lyman | Henry Gage | A. S. Gage Ranch | Amasa Lyman | Abe Lyman | Will Lyman | Viscount Gage | Vernon Lyman Kellogg | Richard R. Lyman | Ray Lyman Wilbur |
Today’s ranch is only a part of what was a once much larger operation founded in 1883 by Alfred S. Gage.
Alfred Stevens Gage (February 6, 1860– June 23, 1928) was an American rancher and businessman who founded the A. S. Gage Ranch in west Texas.
After the sale of the house, Charles Keith later went on to gain additional public notoriety when he accepted the position of interim mayor of Kansas City in 1940 between Bryce B. Smith's resignation and the inauguration of John B. Gage.
He was to cut the city budget by $700,000, hired city manager L.P. Cookingham, and began to expand the city limits.
His son is Gardiner Lathrop who was founder of the Kansas City law firm Lathrop & Gage.
He won the support for his plans from Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage and in March 1901, President William McKinley appointed him the first director of the National Bureau of Standards.