Henry Agard Wallace was an American politician,journalist,farmer,and businessman who served as the 33rd vice president of the United States,the 11th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture,and the 10th U.S. Secretary of Commerce. He was the Progressive Party nominee in the 1948 presidential election.
The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is a United States agency within the Executive Office of the President established in 1946,which advises the President of the United States on economic policy. The CEA provides much of the empirical research for the White House and prepares the publicly-available annual Economic Report of the President.
Paul Howard Douglas was an American politician and Georgist economist. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as a U.S. Senator from Illinois for eighteen years,from 1949 to 1967. During his Senate career,he was a prominent member of the liberal coalition.
Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman (1861–1939),was an American economist who spent his entire academic career at Columbia University in New York City. Seligman is best remembered for his pioneering work involving taxation and public finance. His principles for a progressive federal income tax were adopted by Congress after the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment. A prolific scholar and teacher,his students had great influence on the fiscal architecture of postcolonial nations. He served as an influential founding member of the American Economics Association.
William Lockhart "Will" Clayton was an American business leader and government official. Much of his business career centered on cotton trading. He and his three brothers-in-law formed a partnership that grew into the Anderson,Clayton and Company,at one time the world's largest cotton trading company. Politically aligned with the Democratic Party,he opposed some of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's agricultural policies. He repudiated his opposition after Roosevelt's Secretary of State Cordell Hull worked for a reciprocal trade agreement.
The 80th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government,composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington,DC from January 3,1947,to January 3,1949,during the first and second years of Harry S. Truman's presidency. The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Sixteenth Census of the United States in 1940.
Arthur Frank Burns was an American economist and diplomat who served as the 10th chair of the Federal Reserve from 1970 to 1978. He previously chaired Council of Economic Advisers under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1956 and served as the first counselor to the President under Richard Nixon from January to November 1969. Burns was the first person to hold both posts. He also taught and researched at Rutgers University,Columbia University,and the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Edwin John Feulner Jr. is an American academic who founded the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation and served as its president from 1977 to 2013 and again from 2017 to 2018. Feulner's positions have included advisor and chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation,from which he received the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom in 2006.
John Roy Steelman was the first person to serve as "The Assistant to the President of the United States",in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1946 to 1953. The office later became the White House Chief of Staff.
Chase Going Woodhouse was a prominent feminist leader,suffragist,and educator. She served as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing the Second Congressional District of Connecticut,becoming the second Congresswoman from Connecticut,the first elected as a Democrat,and the first woman born outside the United States in either chamber of the U.S. Congress.
Dattatreya Gopal Karve was an Indian economist and professor who contributed to the fields of economics,public administration and the cooperative movement in India. He was also the deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1962 to 1964.
David Michael Garrood Newbery,CBE,FBA,is a Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge. He got this position in 1988. He specializes in the field of energy economics,and he writes on the regulation of electricity markets. His interests also include climate change mitigation and environmental policy,privatisation,and risk.
Leon Hirsch Keyserling was an American economist and lawyer who served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1950 to 1953. During his tenure,he advised President Harry S. Truman on the economic issues and helped draft major pieces of Fair Deal legislation.
Paul Gray Hoffman was an American automobile company executive,statesman,and global development aid administrator. He was the first administrator of the Economic Cooperation Administration,where he led the implementation of the Marshall Plan from 1948–1950.
Kym Anderson is an Australian economist,specialising in trade policy and issues related to the World Trade Organization. He studied at the University of New England,the University of Adelaide and the University of Chicago before completing a PhD at Stanford University. He holds a Personal Chair in the School of Economics and is Foundation Executive Director of the Centre for International Economic Studies at the University of Adelaide
The presidency of Harry S. Truman began on April 12,1945,when Harry S. Truman became the 33rd president upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt,and ended on January 20,1953.
Horace Bookwalter Drury was an American economist,lecturer at Ohio State University,and management author,particularly known for his early work on scientific management.
Louis Hyman Bean was an American economic and political analyst who is best known for predicting Harry S. Truman's victory in the 1948 presidential election.
