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Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich
(born Nov. 6, 1841, Foster, R.I., U.S. — died April 16, 1915, New York, N.Y.) U.S. senator and financier. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1879 – 81) and the Senate (1881 – 1911). His work as chair of the National Monetary Commission (1908 – 12) helped prepare the way for the Federal Reserve System (1913). He also invested profitably in banking, electricity, gas, rubber, and sugar.

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