Henry Hank Merritt Paulson, Jr. is an American banker who served as the 74th Secretary of the Treasury. He had served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs, and is now a fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies and the chairman of the Paulson Institute at the University of Chicago, which he founded in 2011 to promote sustainable economic growth and a cleaner environment around the world, with an initial focus on the United States and China.
Paulson, born in Palm Beach, Florida, to Marianne and Henry Merritt Paulson, a wholesale jeweler, was raised as a Christian Scientist on a farm in Barrington, Illinois. He has Norwegian, German and English Canadian ancestry. Paulson attained the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America and is a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.
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