George McKendree Steele

Biography:

The Rev. Dr. George McKendree Steele D. D. LL. D. was an American educator and Methodist minister president of Lawrence University in Appleton Wisconsin from 1865-1879. He was the author of the 1876 pamphlet The Currency Question which was regarded as a major statement of the philosophy of the Greenback movement; and was a Greenback Party nominee for Congress and other public office.