Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Christopher Gustavus Memminger (January 9, 1803 March 7, 1888) was a prominent political leader and the first Secretary of the Treasury for the Confederate States of America. Memminger was born in Vaihingen an der Enz, Germany (in what was then the Duchy of Württemberg). His father, Gottfried Memminger, was a military officer who died in combat a month after his son''s birth. His mother, Eberhardina Kohler Memminger, immigrated to Charleston, South Carolina, in the United States but died of yellow fever in 1807. Christopher was placed in an orphanage.