Christopher Memminger

Christopher Memminger
1st Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury
In office
February 25, 1861 – July 18, 1864
PresidentJefferson Davis
Preceded byPosition Established
Succeeded byG. A. Trenholm
Deputy from South Carolina
to the Provisional Congress
of the Confederate States
In office
February 4, 1861 – February 17, 1862
Preceded byNew constituency
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born
Christoph Gustav Memminger

(1803-01-09)January 9, 1803
Vaihingen, Wuerttemberg (present-day Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany)
DiedMarch 7, 1888(1888-03-07) (aged 85)
Charleston, South Carolina
Resting placeSt. John in the Wilderness,
Flat Rock, North Carolina
35°16′56.8″N 82°26′34.2″W / 35.282444°N 82.442833°W / 35.282444; -82.442833
Political partyDemocratic
Alma materSouth Carolina College

Christopher Gustavus Memminger (German: Christoph Gustav Memminger; January 9, 1803 – March 7, 1888) was a German-born American politician and a secessionist who participated in the formation of the Confederate States government. 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 principal author of the economic policies of Jefferson Davis's administration.