OVERVIEW:

FULL NAME:
Harold LeClair Ickes 

BORN:
March 15, 1874;
Frankstown Township, Pennsylvania

DIED:
February 3, 1952 (age 77);
Washington, DC

EDUCATION:
University of Chicago (AB,  1897)
University of Chicago  (JD, 1907)

POLITICAL PARTIES:
Republican
Progressive
Republican

HIGHLIGHTS:
1897-1900:
Reporter, Chicago Record
1905:
Managed Chicago Mayoral Campaign of John Maynard Harlan
1907:
Began Practicing Law
1911:
Managed Mayoral campaign of Charles E. Merriam
1912-1916:
Active in the Progressive Party
1918-1919:
Worked for the YMCA in France
1922:
President, People’s Protective League
1924:
Illinois campaign manager, Hiram Johnson’s campaign for the Republican Party presidential nomination
1926:
Managed the  Senatorial campaign of Hugh S. Magill
Director, People’s Traction League
1933-1946:
U.S. Secretary of the interior
1933-1939:
Administrator, Public Works Administration
1934:
Published The New Democracy
1935:
Published Back to Work
1939:
Published America’s House of Lords
1941:
Published Freedom of the Press Today
1941-1946:
Solid Fuels Administrator and Petroleum Administrator for War
1943:
Published Fightin’ Oil
1943:
Published The Autobiography of a Curmudgeon
1945:
Chairman, American Delegation, Anglo-American Oil Treaty negotiations

PORTRAITS:

RESOURCES: 

UVA Miller Center
Wikipedia
Library of Congress

 

MEDIA COVERAGE:

RESIGNATION (2/13/1946):
New York Times
Resignation Letter 

OBITUARIES (2/3/1952):
New York Times