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Us navy berthing boats vietnam war9/15/2023 ![]() Currently located in Key West, FL, and maintained by USCGC INGHAM Maritime Museum.īuilder: Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Unwilling to comply with Jackson's demand that the "socially unacceptable" wife of Secretary of War John Eaton, Margaret O'Neal Eaton, be invited to Washington social functions, Ingham and the other members of Jackson's cabinet resigned.ĭisposition: Turned over to the Patriots' Point Maritime Museum, Charleston, South Carolina as a museum ship. Ingham was unable to reach any resolution between Jackson and Biddle but he left office over an incident unrelated to the Bank. Ingham believed in the Bank and labored to resolve conflicts between Jackson, who wanted it destroyed, and the Bank's president, Nicholas Biddle. The president thought that there should be no paper currency in circulation, but only coins, and that the Constitution was designed to expel paper currency as part of the monetary system. Jackson not only mistrusted the Second Bank, but all banks. The Second Bank of the United States, viewed by President Jackson and much of the nation as an unconstitutional and dangerous monopoly, became Ingham's primary concern. He was appointed Secretary of the Treasury in 1829 by President Andrew Jackson and he served until 1831. Ingham, born in 1779, who became a well-known manufacturer and a long time member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. The cutter Ingham was named for Samuel D. The "Treasury" class Coast Guard cutters (sometimes referred to as the "Secretary" or 327-foot class) were all named for former secretaries of the Treasury Department. ![]()
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