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Robert E. Preston : ウィキペディア英語版 | Robert E. Preston Robert E. Preston (born 1836) was Director of the United States Mint from 1893 to 1898. ==Biography==
Preston was born in Bean Station, Tennessee in 1836.〔(Alfred Sidney Johnson, Clarence A. Bickford, William W. Hudson, & Nathan Haskell Dole, ''The Cyclopedic Review of Current History'' (1894), Vol. 3, p. 499 )〕 In 1856, United States Secretary of the Treasury James Guthrie appointed Preston to a clerkship in the office of the first auditor.〔 He rose through the ranks in that office and was responsible for auditing the accounts of the United States Mint.〔 When the Mint Bureau was created by the Coinage Act of 1873, Henry Linderman, the Director of the United States Mint, encouraged Preston to join the Mint Bureau.〔(George Greenlief Evans, ''Illustrated History of the United States Mint'' (1898), p. 87 )〕 Preston served as Computer of Bullion, Assay Clerk, Adjuster of Accounts, and Mint Examiner.〔 At several times, he served as Acting Director of the United States Mint in the absence of Linderman and his successors, Horatio C. Burchard and James P. Kimball.〔 In 1893, President of the United States Grover Cleveland named Preston Director of the United States Mint.〔("The New Mint Director", ''New York Times'', Sept. 28, 1893 )〕 Preston's appointment was strictly on the basis of merit; with the Free Silver question raging, Cleveland wanted to appoint a nonpartisan as Mint Director.〔 Preston held office from November 1893 until February 1898.
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