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That is correct. I run www.occ.treas.gov. It is a public domain source.


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Material is open source material provided by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and not copyrighted in anyway. http://www.occ.gov/about/who-we-are/leadership/past-comptrollers/index-past-comptrollers.html, which I also maintain.

This is pretty important. edit

I've been doing a lot of work on your comptrollers of the currency articles and I realised the article you made, A. Barton Hepburn, is about the same guy as the article Alonzo Barton Hepburn. Hehe. I'm not quite sure what to do about this. The one you made has less info, but is definitely much better written, with a better layout (succession boxes etc.). I would consider trying to merge them or something. I don't know! Spongefrog (talk) 20:05, 6 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

Oh no, same thing with Henry May Dawes and Henry M. Dawes. Spongefrog (talk) 20:08, 6 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

Right, I've proposed them for merger. I'll keep you updated, unless you tell me otherwise. Spongefrog (talk) 20:44, 6 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

They've both been merged, although I don't expect you to read this, you've not signed in for a few days/weeks. Spongefrog (talk) 15:06, 9 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

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Source is The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, aterial is open source material provided by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and not copyrighted in anyway. http://www.occ.gov/about/who-we-are/leadership/past-comptrollers/index-past-comptrollers.html. Public Domain

Thomas J. Curry, Comptroller of the Currency edit

I added a page for Comptroller of the Currency Thomas J. Curry. It is based on public domain material, that I wrote, and published on www.occ.gov as his official biography.

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