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Works Progress Administration administrators

This list has 2 sub-lists and 11 members. See also Works Progress Administration workers
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  • Harry Hopkins
    Harry Hopkins American New Deal administrator and WWII diplomat (1890–1946)
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    Harry Lloyd Hopkins (August 17, 1890 – January 29, 1946) was the 8th Secretary of Commerce, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisor on foreign policy during World War II. 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 troubleshooter and liaison with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. He supervised the $50 billion Lend Lease program of military aid to the Allies.
  • Jim Folsom
    Jim Folsom Governor of Alabama
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    James Elisha Folsom Sr. (October 9, 1908 – November 21, 1987), commonly known as Jim Folsom or Big Jim Folsom, was an American politician who served as the 42nd governor of the U.S. state of Alabama, having served from 1947 to 1951, and again from 1955 to 1959.
  • Leon Makielski American artist (b. 1885, d. 1974)
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    Leon Alexander Makielski (May 17, 1885 – November 1974) was an American artist and art instructor, best known for his French Impressionist inspired landscapes and distinct portraits of his contemporaries. He resided in Michigan for the majority of his life and was extremely active in the artist communities of both Detroit and Ann Arbor.
  • Guy Lookabaugh Wrestler
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    Guy "Ducky" Lookabaugh (May 26, 1896 – September 10, 1981) was an American football player, wrestler, and coach of football, basketball, and wrestling. He competed in the freestyle welterweight event at the 1924 Summer Olympics. Lookabaugh served as the head football coach at Northeastern State Teachers College—now known as Northeastern State University—in Tahlequah, Oklahoma from 1930 to 1935 and at Grinnell College from 1936 to 1939. He was also the head basketball coach at Northeastern State from 1929 to 1934. Lookabaugh played college football at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College—now known as Oklahoma State University–Stillwater. He was an assistant football coach and head wrestling coach at the University of Kansas in the late 1920s.
  • John McEwan
    John McEwan American football player and coach
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    John James "Cap" McEwan (February 18, 1893 – August 9, 1970) was an American football player and coach. He played from 1913 to 1916 as a center at the United States Military Academy, where he was a three-time All-American and captain of the Army football squad for three seasons. McEwan served as the head football coach at West Point (1923–1925), the University of Oregon (1926–1929), and the College of the Holy Cross (1930–1932), compiling a career college football record of 59–23–6. He also coached at the professional level for the Brooklyn Dodgers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1933 to 1934, tallying a mark of 9–11–1. McEwan was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1962.
  • Selene Gifford
    Selene Gifford American government official
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    Selene Gifford (May 30, 1901 – July 21, 1979) was an American social worker, and an international and federal government official. She won the Federal Woman's Award in 1964, for her work and leadership at the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
  • Ruth Tripp American composer, music critic, educator and pianist
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    Ruth Erskine Tripp (December 26, 1897 – May 1971) was an American composer, music critic, educator, and pianist. She administered the Works Progress Administration's Federal Music Project (WPA FMP) in the state of Rhode Island from 1940 to 1943.
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    Mary Jean Simpson (1888–1977) was the first woman to be appointed a position as bill clerk in the Office of the Secretary of the United States Senate and she was the Dean of Women at the University of Vermont. She was an accomplished scholar and a public servant.
  • Ellen Sullivan Woodward
    Ellen Sullivan Woodward American politician
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    Ellen Sullivan Woodward was a federal civil servant and state legislator. She served as director of work relief programs for women organized as part of the Roosevelt administration's New Deal in the 1930s.
  • Francis C. Harrington
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    Francis C. Harrington was a colonel in the US Army Corps of Engineers and administrator of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) under President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression.
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