Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (May 11, 1891 – February 6, 1967) was appointed Secretary of the Treasury of the United States during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Morgenthau Plan, which bares his name, was actually written by his assistant, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and KGB agent Harry Dexter White who worked in the Division of Monetary Research.

Roosevelt biographer John Flynn described Morgenthau as "a slow, dull youth with no capacity for study. Up to the time he was given an important post by Roosevelt he had had no success in any kind of business. His father had set him up as a gentleman farmer on an estate next to Roosevelt's home at Hyde Park and endowed him with plenty of money. That is how he met Roosevelt and he remained for life the latter's humble and compliant servitor."