Bray Hammond

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{{Short description|American financial historian}}

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|birth_date={{birth date|1886|11|20}}

|death_date={{death date and age|1968|7|20|1886|11|20}}

|notableworks=Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (1957)

|awards=1958 Pulitzer Prize for History}}

Bray Hammond (November 20, 1886 – July 20, 1968) was an American financial historian and assistant secretary to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 1944–1950.{{cite book|last=Hammond|first=Bray|title=Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ruQuPOAKJfAC|year=1991|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=0-691-00553-2}} He won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for History for Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (1957).{{cite web | url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/bray-hammond | title=The 1958 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History | website=The Pulitzer Prizes | access-date=October 8, 2019}} He was educated at Stanford University.