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((short description|American financier and 42nd Secretary of the Treasury))
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((Infobox officeholder
|name        = Lyman Gage
|image       = Lyman Gage, Bain photo portrait.jpg
|office      = 42nd [[United States Secretary of the Treasury]]
|president   = [[William McKinley]]<br>[[Theodore Roosevelt]]
|term_start  = March 6, 1897
|term_end    = January 31, 1902
|predecessor = [[John G. Carlisle]]
|successor   = [[L. M. Shaw|Leslie Shaw]]
|birth_name  = Lyman Judson Gage
|birth_date  = ((birth date|1836|6|28))
|birth_place = [[DeRuyter, New York]], U.S.
|death_date  = ((death date and age|1927|1|26|1836|6|28))
|death_place = [[San Diego]], [[California]], U.S.
|party       = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] ((small|(Before 1884, 1896–1902)))<br>[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] ((small|(1884–1896)))
|signature   = Signature of Lyman Judson Gage (1836–1927).png
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'''Lyman Judson Gage''' (June 28, 1836&nbsp;– January 26, 1927) was an American financier and [[Cabinet of the United States|presidential Cabinet]] officer.

==Biography==
===Early life===
He was born in [[DeRuyter (town), New York|DeRuyter, New York]], educated at an academy in [[Rome, New York]], and at the age of 17 became a bank clerk. In 1853 he moved to Chicago, served for three years as bookkeeper, and in 1858 entered the Merchants Loan and Trust Company, where he was cashier in 1861–1868. Afterwards he became successively assistant cashier, vice-president, and president of the [[First Chicago Bank|First National Bank of Chicago]], one of the strongest financial institutions in the [[Midwestern United States]].

He was chosen in 1890 to be president of the board of directors of the [[World's Columbian Exposition]]. Following the exposition, he became president of the newly formed [[Chicago Civic Federation]], which sought to reform city governance.

===Political career===
In politics he was originally a [[United States Republican Party|Republican]], and was a delegate to the national convention of the party in 1880, and chairman of its finance committee.

In 1884, however, he supported [[Grover Cleveland]] for the [[President of the United States|presidency]], and came to be looked upon as a Democrat. In 1892 President Cleveland, after his second election, offered Gage the post of secretary of the treasury, but Gage declined the offer. In the [[free silver|free-silver]] campaign of 1896, Gage labored effectively for the election of Republican candidate [[William McKinley]], and from March 1897 until January 1902 he served as [[Secretary of the Treasury]] in the cabinets successively of Presidents McKinley and [[Theodore Roosevelt]].

[[File:GAGE, Lyman J-Treasury (BEP engraved portrait).jpg|thumb|right|[[Bureau of Engraving and Printing]] portrait of Gage as Secretary of the Treasury]]

As Secretary of the Treasury, Gage was influential in securing passage of the [[Gold Standard Act]] of March 14, 1900, which reestablished a currency backed solely by gold. Since this limited the amount of [[currency]] in circulation, it initiated a period, continuing until 1912, in which the Secretary of Treasury was obliged to interact in the money market by introducing into circulation the Treasury surplus. The inability of the Treasury to respond to the needs of the market as well as the perceived need for a currency which would expand and contract with the needs of the nation, led to the creation of the [[Federal Reserve]] in 1913 to regulate the [[money market]].

Gage resigned in 1902 to become a banker in New York. From April 1902 until 1906 he was president of the [[United States Trust Company]] in [[New York City]]. His administration of the treasury department, through a more than ordinarily trying period, was marked by a conservative policy, looking toward the strengthening of the gold standard, the securing of greater flexibility in the currency, and a more perfect adjustment of the relations between the government and the National banks.

Lyman J. Gage was instrumental in creating the San Diego [[Panama–California Exposition]] of 1915. Later he was president of the committee to preserve the Expo's characteristic buildings in [[Balboa Park (San Diego)|Balboa Park]].

===Final years===
[[File:Grave of Lyman Judson Gage at Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago 1.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Gage's grave at Rosehill Cemetery]]

Gage was one of the 30 founding members of the [[Simplified Spelling Board]], founded in 1906 by [[Andrew Carnegie]] to make English easier to learn and understand through changes in the [[orthography]] of the [[English language]].<ref>((Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/78391228/the-new-york-times/ |title=Carnegie Assaults the Spelling Book; To Pay the Cost of Reforming English Orthography. Campaign About to Begin; Board Named, with Headquarters Here -- Local Societies Throughout the Countr |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=1 |date=March 12, 1906 |access-date=2021-12-09 |via=Newspapers.com))</ref>

He died of pneumonia in [[San Diego]], California in 1927,<ref>((Cite magazine |date=1927-02-07 |title=Milestones: Feb. 7, 1927 |language=en-US |magazine=Time |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,729977-2,00.html |access-date=2023-01-19 |issn=0040-781X))</ref> and is buried at [[Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago|Rosehill Cemetery]] in Chicago.

==Private life==
[[File:Mrs Lyman J. Gage.jpg|thumb|left|Mrs. Cornelia Gage]]
Lyman Gage married Sarah Etheridge in 1864, and the couple had four children: Locke, Eli Alexander, Fanny, and Mary; only Eli survived to adulthood. Sarah died in 1874, when son Eli was 7 years old. Eli Gage married Sophie R Weare in 1893 in Iowa, but committed suicide in Seattle in 1906 leaving his wife and two young sons, Lyman J. Gage II (1896-1954) and John Weare Gage (1900-1962). After Sarah's death, Lyman Gage married Cornelia Lansing, who died childless in 1901. In the late 1910s, Gage remarried a third time with Frances Ballou, and the two had a son, Lyman Judson. Frances died in 1943, around 16 years after Gage's death.

In 1906, Gage indulged his longtime interest in [[metaphysics|metaphysical]] phenomena by purchasing property on and subsequently living at [[Lomaland]], a [[Theosophy (Blavatskian)|Theosophist]] retreat in Southern California. Though this came as something of a shock to the American public, those who knew him privately were not surprised, as Gage had previously studied [[spiritualism]], [[astrology]], and prophesied the death of his own brother through a "[[psychic]] flash".<ref>[https://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/lccn/sn84026749/1906-07-15/ed-1/seq-48 Chronicling America – The Library of Congress<!-- Bot-generated title -->] at www.loc.gov</ref> His move to Lomaland came around the same time as his sisters death in 1908, who was raising her three grandchildren including [[Sibyl Anikeef]].<ref name="SFMoMA">((Cite web |title=Anikeef, Sibyl |url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/sibyl-anikeef/ |access-date=2023-06-25 |website=SFMOMA |language=en-US))</ref> Gage raised these three children after 1910.<ref name="SFMoMA" />

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