Andrew Mellon was one of the top american industrialists of the late 19th century. Andrew came from a very hard working and succesful family. His family owned a bank in Western Pennslyvania. Mellon and his brother became the main leaders of the bank under their own dad. The bank spread throughout the nation and beacame a main base for the U.S. Andrew was very fortunate and was blessed onto a wealthy family. He was able to earn sucess through a family buisness. Although he gained great sucess through his family business, Mellon still had an exceptionally great talent. Mellon became more involved with the bank everyday and was able to help large corporations like ALCOA, Carborundum, Koppers, and Gulf oil. Mellon acquired many holdings making him one of the richest in the nation. After his bank career in became the secretary of treasre of Pennslyvania. This postion made him more of an national figure. Under this role Mellon was able to cut taxes, enforce prohibition, and improved financial prosperity. The criticism and buisnneses cnnections began to crash and led to the collaspe of his public career. Mellon had a very succesful career in the office and was able to make many changes and improvements that were very beneficial to the nation.

Later in Mellon's life, after his treasurer position he became a philanthropist. Mellon was very passionate in art and viewed paintings and other structures in great depth. He was a very wealthy man and was able to purchase paintings from the soviet union. Andrew developed the Insitutue of Industrial Research at the Universoty of Pittsburg. He performed in this task to make improvements in the industrial program. He also donated ten million dollars to the educational institute. He was a very generous man and wanted to help the nation expand and increase the development of new industrialists. He performed in this task to make improvements in the industrial program. Mellon continued to expnd his art collection becasue of his love for art. He wanted to donate his gallery of collections he had collected through the years to the nation. He started to open The National Gallery of Art so he could share all of his magnificent pieces of art. Mellon died soon after and the Institute of Idustrial Research joined with Carnegie Institute of Technology which became known as the Carnegie Mellon University. It contains science and technology research to help the growth of the nation. I feel that Mellon would feel very accomplished with this decison because he was very interested in any ways to help the country. Mellon was able to experience many different tasks throughout his life that i feel helped shaped him to be the succesful man he came out to be.
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