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Henry Paulson served as the 74th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. Paulson was appointed by President George W. Bush to the post in July, 2006. He gained international acclaim with his solution to the mortgage crisis of 2008. He was one of the key individuals involved with the the initiation of various multi-billion dollar bailout packages.
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Henry graduated from Dartmouth University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1970. He has worked for Goldman Sachs on Wall Street for most of his career after working briefly for John Ehrlichman in the Nixon Administration.

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