The Presidents and Presidency of the United States

On this date in 1891, 39th Secretary of the Treasury William Windom died after 23 months in office. Previously, he had been the 33rd Secretary of the Treasury (for eight months in 1881). Before that, he represented Minnesota in the House of Representatives from 1859 to 1869, and then in the Senate from 1870 to 1883 (with two gaps of a few months each). The 63-year-old was the 11th of 22 Secretaries to die in office.

He was the great-grandfather of the actor William Windom.