OVERVIEW:

BORN:
August 17, 1890; 
Sioux City, Iowa

DIED:
January 29, 1946 (age 55)
New York, New York

EDUCATION:
Grinnell College (BA, 1912)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Democrat

HIGHLIGHTS:
1912-1915
Social Worker in New York City,
Worked at Christodora Settlement House and the
Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor (AICP).
1915-1917:
Executive Secretary, New York City Board of Child Welfare
1917-1921:
Worked for American Red Cross in New Orleans and Atlanta
1921:
Became Assistant Director the AICP
1924-1933:
Head of the New York Tuberculosis Association
1931:
Deputy Administrator, NY Temporary Emergency Relief Administration
1932:
Administrator, NY Temporary Emergency Relief Administration
1933-1935:
Administrator, Federal Emergency Relief Administration
1933-1934:
Administrator, Civil Works Administration
1935-1938:
Administrator, Works Progress Administration
1938-1940:
U.S. Secretary of Commerce
1941:
Coordinated Lend Lease Program
1941-1945:
Advisor to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman; 
Chairman of the Munitions Assignments Board;
Chairman, President’s Soviet Protocol Committee;
Member of the War Production Board;
Member Pacific War Council;
Conducted Diplomatic Missions in Great Britain and the Soviet Union;
1943:
Accompanied FDR to wartime conferences in Casablanca, Quebec, and Tehran
1945: 
Accompanied FDR to wartime conference in Yalta
July 1945:
Resigned from Government Service
November 1945:
Awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by FDR

PORTRAITS:

RESOURCES:

FDR Library
UVA Miller Center
Virginia Commonwealth University
Wikipedia