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Harry Hopkins

Personal data
Date of birthAugust 17, 1890
Place of birthSioux City, Iowa
Date of deathJanuary 29, 1946 (aged 55)
Place of deathNew York City, New York
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseBarbara Duncan (died 1937)
Louise Macy
Ethel Gross (divorced)
ChildrenDavid Hopkins
Robert Hopkins
Stephen P. Hopkins
Barbara Hopkins
Diana Hopkins
Alma materGrinnell College
8th United States Secretary of Commerce
In officeDecember 24, 1938 - September 18, 1940
PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt
Succeeded byJesse Holman Jones
Preceded byDaniel Calhoun Roper

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Harry Lloyd Hopkins (August 17, 1890 � January 29, 1946) was one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisers. He was one of the architects of the New Deal, especially the relief programs of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which he directed and built into the largest employer in the country. In World War II he was Roosevelt's chief diplomatic advisor and troubleshooter and was a key policy maker in the $50 billion Lend Lease program that sent aid to the allies.

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Business-friendly? - Orange County Review Tweet this news
Orange County Review--Pictured, local vice mayor -Harry Hopkins- welcomes Bompard during a dinner at Elmwood at Sparks. By Gracie Hart Is Orange business friendly? ... - Date : Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:25:18 GMT+00:00
Infrastructure bank the solution to unemployment : former Clinton adviser - International Business Times Tweet this news
International Business Times---...- level of the federal system would bind a 21st century -Harry Hopkins- [architect of FDR's government hiring programs] with myriad Lilliputian threads. ... - Date : Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:30:55 GMT+00:00
FDR knew networks - Muckety Tweet this news
Muckety--In a 1935 note to -Harry Hopkins-, he quickly outlines $150 million in spending on work relief, urging the manufacture of overalls and other clothing to ... - Date : Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:03:48 GMT+00:00
Council reverses budget vote - Orange County Review Tweet this news
Orange County Review--Council member -Harry Hopkins- agreed. "We worked long and hard on [that original budget]," he said. "It was a balanced budget. I'm in favor of moving forward ... - Date : Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:56:59 GMT+00:00
Great Depression, Great Recession - News & Observer Tweet this news
News & Observer--As conservatives cried "the economy will work itself out in the long run," -Harry Hopkins-, a Roosevelt adviser, famously replied: "People don't eat in the ... - Date : Sat, 21 Aug 2010 06:14:22 GMT+00:00
Big government forgets how to build big projects - Ashland Daily Tidings Tweet this news
Ashland Daily Tidings--Somervell and his WPA boss -Harry Hopkins- would have had things moving a lot faster than that. Of course, they didn't have to deal with the intricacies and ... - Date : Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:18:07 GMT+00:00
Orange Council picks Mason as mayor - The Free Lance-Star Tweet this news
The Free Lance-Star--He abstained from voting for himself, a move copied by Ryan Gibson and -Harry Hopkins- when they were nominated for vice mayor. That resulted in a victory for ... - Date : Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:59:26 GMT+00:00
Rare 1794 Silver Dollar Sells for $1.2 Million at Bowers and Merena Auction - PR Newswire (press release) Tweet this news
PR Newswire (press release)---...- Louis E. Eliasberg Sr. Collection, the -Harry- W. Bass Jr. Collection, the Garrett Collection for The Johns -Hopkins- University and the Norweb Collection. ... - Date : Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:43:19 GMT+00:00
Henley crowned summer league champions - Henley Standard Tweet this news
Henley Standard--A delighted Henley vice chairman and team manager, Peter -Hopkins-, said: “This is a wonderful achievement. It just shows what can be achieved with good ... - Date : Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:57:50 GMT+00:00
Small Business Lending Fund Bill Stalls � Again - American Banker (subscription) Tweet this news
American Banker (subscription)--WASHINGTON � Defying expectations once again, a bill that would create a small business lending fund failed to pass a critical vote that ... - Date : Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:55:59 GMT+00:00

Political offices
Preceded by
Daniel C. Roper
United States Secretary of Commerce
Served under: Franklin D. Roosevelt

December 24, 1938 - September 18, 1940
Succeeded by
Jesse Holman Jones


United States Secretaries of Commerce

Secretaries of Commerce & LaborCortelyou * Metcalf * Straus * Nagel
Secretaries of CommerceRedfield * Alexander * Hoover * Whiting * Lamont * Chapin * Roper * Hopkins * Jones * Wallace * Harriman * Sawyer * Weeks * Strauss * Mueller * Hodges * Connor * Trowbridge * Smith * Stans * Peterson * Dent * Morton * Richardson * Kreps * Klutznick * Baldrige * Verity * Mosbacher * Franklin * Brown * Kantor * Daley * Mineta * Evans * Gutierrez * Locke

Cabinet of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933 �1945)

Vice PresidentJohn Nance Garner (1933 �1941) * Henry A. Wallace (1941 �1945) * Harry S. Truman (1945)
Secretary of StateCordell Hull (1933 �1944) * Edward Stettinius, Jr. (1944 �1945)
Secretary of WarGeorge Dern (1933 �1936) * Harry Hines Woodring (1936 �1940) * Henry L. Stimson (1940 �1945)
Secretary of the TreasuryWilliam Hartman Woodin (1933 �1934) * Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (1934 �1945)
Attorney GeneralHomer Stille Cummings (1933 �1939) * Frank Murphy (1939 �1940) * Robert H. Jackson (1940 �1941) * Francis Biddle (1941 �1945)
Postmaster GeneralJames Farley (1933 �1940) * Frank Comerford Walker (1940 �1945)
Secretary of the NavyClaude A. Swanson (1933 �1939) * Charles Edison (1940) * Frank Knox (1940 �1944) * James Forrestal (1944 �1945)
Secretary of the InteriorHarold L. Ickes (1933 �1945)
Secretary of the AgricultureHenry A. Wallace (1933 �1940) * Claude R. Wickard (1940 �1945)
Secretary of CommerceDaniel C. Roper (1933 �1938) * Harry Hopkins (1939 �1940) * Jesse H. Jones (1940 �1945) * Henry A. Wallace (1945)
Secretary of LaborFrances Perkins (1933 �1945)



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