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    Harry Hopkins

    American politician, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce, assistant to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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  1. Harold Lloyd "Harry" Hopkins (August 17, 1890 – January 29, 1946) was an American statesman, public administrator, and presidential advisor. A trusted deputy to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt , Hopkins directed New Deal relief programs before serving as the eighth United States secretary of commerce from 1938 to 1940 and as Roosevelt's ...

  2. Jun 12, 2006 · Born in 1890 in Sioux City, Iowa, Harry Hopkins grew up imbued with traditional Midwestern values of self-reliance, thrift, and pragmatism. At Grinnell College, he studied American politics and the British Parliamentary system.

  3. Harry L. Hopkins was a U.S. New Deal Democratic administrator who personified the ideology of vast federal work programs to relieve unemployment in the 1930s; he continued as President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s emissary and closest personal adviser during World War II.

  4. Feb 25, 2021 · Harry Hopkins is justly celebrated as one of the most important diplomats of the 20th century. Yet for the role, he lacked schooling and travel and was hopelessly unpolished. Hopkins’ expertise was not diplomacy but relief programs of America’s post-Depression era.

  5. During the war years, Hopkins acted as FDR's unofficial emissary to Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, as administrator of Lend-Lease, and as the shadowy figure behind Roosevelt at the Big Three conferences. Hopkins died in early 1946, succumbing to a long and debilitating illness.

  6. The distinguished life and career of Harry Lloyd Hopkins in the first half of the 20th century lay at the core of major social changes that defined modern America in the latter 20th and early 21st centuries. Hopkins began his career as a 22-year-old social worker in the ghettos of New York.

  7. May 23, 2018 · Harry Hopkins (1890 – 1946) was one of the major architects and managers of the New Deal during the Great Depression (1929 – 1939) and he was a major U.S. policymaker during World War II (1939 – 1945).

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