{"id":2694,"date":"2023-02-08T10:45:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T15:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cranemuseum.org\/?post_type=archive&#038;p=2694"},"modified":"2023-03-28T14:16:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T18:16:10","slug":"secret-service-1885","status":"publish","type":"archive","link":"https:\/\/cranemuseum.org\/archive\/secret-service-1885\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Service 1885"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"797\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cranemuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/secret-service-letter-797x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cranemuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/secret-service-letter-797x1024.jpg 797w, https:\/\/cranemuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/secret-service-letter-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/cranemuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/secret-service-letter-768x986.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cranemuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/secret-service-letter-1196x1536.jpg 1196w, https:\/\/cranemuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/secret-service-letter-1595x2048.jpg 1595w, https:\/\/cranemuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/secret-service-letter-600x771.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cranemuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/secret-service-letter-scaled.jpg 1993w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 797px) 100vw, 797px\" \/><figcaption>letter to Crane from the Treasury Department, Secret-Service<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secretservice.gov\/about\/history\/timeline\">website<\/a>, The Secret Service Division was formed on July 5, 1865 as part of the Department of the Treasury. &nbsp;Chief William P. Wood was sworn in as the first Secret Service chief (now known as \u201cdirector\u201d) by Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch. The division was created to &#8220;stamp out rampant counterfeiting in order to stabilize America&#8217;s young financial system&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2695,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cranemuseum.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archive\/2694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cranemuseum.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archive"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cranemuseum.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/archive"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cranemuseum.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cranemuseum.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}