Gilbert Rodman (August 21, 1800 – January 15, 1862) was a Pennsylvania attorney and government official who served as acting Solicitor of the United States Treasury.
Biography Gilbert Rodman was born in Bensalem, Pennsylvania on August 21, 1800, to Gilbert Rodman and Sarah Gibbs. He clerked for a Philadelphia merchant, studied law with George M. Dallas and became an attorney, first in Lancaster, and then in Philadelphia.Life of John Davis, by William Watts Hart Davis, 1886, page 98The Philadelphia Bar: A Complete Catalogue of Members From 1776 to 1868, by David Paul Brown, 1868, page 17
In 1829 Samuel D. Ingham of Pennsylvania was appointed Secretary of the Treasury and asked Rodman to accompany him. Rodman rose through the ranks of the department to become Chief Clerk, or primary assistant to the Secretary, serving until his death.A genealogical and personal history of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, by William Watts Hart Davis, Volume 1, 1876, page 163The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge, published by Gray and Bowen, Boston, 1831, page 130Newspaper article, Washington Intelligence, Oswego (N.Y.) Commercial Times, March 8, 1861
Rodman occasionally acted as Solicitor of the Treasury and Secretary of the Treasury during the absences of the primary office holders or when there were interregnums.The Political Register and Congressional Directory, published by Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878, page 230
During the Zachary Taylor administration Rodman was sent to San Francisco to investigate irregularities in the collections of customs duties.The Adventures of James Collier: First Collector of the Port of San Francisco, by Grant Foreman, 1937, 49J. Ross Browne, Confidential Agent in Old California, by Richard H. Dillon, 1965, page 25Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in Obedience to the Resolution of the Senate Calling for "Information Relating to the Security and Collection of the Revenue in California, etc., Accompanied by a Report From Gilbert Rodman, Esq., Special Agent, published by U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1850
Rodman died in Washington, D.C. on January 15, 1862.Genealogy of the Rodman family, 1620 to 1886, by Charles Henry Jones, 1886, page 49The Salmon P. Chase Papers, by Salmon Portland Chase, edited by John Niven, Volume 1, 1993, page 326
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