Gilbert Rodman was a Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

 attorney and government official who served as acting Solicitor of the United States Treasury

Solicitor of the United States Treasury

The Solicitor of the Treasury position was created in the United States Department of the Treasury by an act of May 29, 1830 , which changed the name of the Agent of the Treasury.-Function:...

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Biography

Gilbert Rodman was born in Bensalem, Pennsylvania on August 21, 1800. He clerked for a Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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 merchant, studied law with George M. Dallas

George M. Dallas

George Mifflin Dallas was a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and the 11th Vice President of the United States , serving under James K. Polk.-Family and early life:...

 and became an attorney, first in Lancaster

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Lancaster is a city in the south-central part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is the county seat of Lancaster County and one of the older inland cities in the United States, . With a population of 59,322, it ranks eighth in population among Pennsylvania's cities...

, and then in Philadelphia.

In 1829 Samuel D. Ingham

Samuel D. Ingham

Samuel Delucenna Ingham was a U.S. Congressman and U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Andrew Jackson.-Early life and education:...

 of Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

 was appointed Secretary of the Treasury and asked Rodman to accompany join him. Rodman rose through the ranks of the department to become Chief Clerk, or primary assistant to the Secretary, serving until his death.

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.

During the Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States and an American military leader. Initially uninterested in politics, Taylor nonetheless ran as a Whig in the 1848 presidential election, defeating Lewis Cass...

 administration Rodman was sent to San Francisco

San Francisco, California

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 to investigate irregularities in the collections of customs duties.

Rodman died in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

on January 15, 1862.