Lectures
Jeffrey Boutwell on Treasury Secretary George S. Boutwell
- Wednesday, September 17, 2025
- 12 - 1 pm ET
- Live via Zoom
For our first lecture of Fall 2025, the Treasury Historical Association is honored to feature acclaimed author Dr. Jeffrey Boutwell. Dr. Boutwell, who shares a common ancestor with Treasury Secretary George S. Boutwell, will discuss his new biography of the former Secretary—Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of Democracy. This lecture will explore Secretary Boutwell’s years as a senior official at the Treasury Department. Secretary Boutwell’s work as Revenue Commissioner—this role is the predecessor to the job of IRS Commissioner—under President Abraham Lincoln and as Treasury Secretary under President Ulysses S. Grant helped lay the foundation for the modern American economy.
About the Author
Jeffrey Boutwell is a writer, historian, and public policy specialist whose forty-year career spanned journalism, government, and international scientific research and cooperation. He has written widely on issues relating to nuclear weapons arms control, European politics, Middle East security issues, and environmental degradation and civil conflict. He has a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a B.A. in history from Yale University, and he worked for many years at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Mass. Jeffrey grew up in Winchester and Concord, Mass., and now lives with his wife, Buthaina Shukri, in Columbia, Maryland. He and George Boutwell share a common ancestor, the indentured servant James Boutwell, who emigrated from England to Salem, Mass. in 1632.
