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Robert Coldwell Wood (September 16, 1923 – April 1, 2005) was an American political scientist, academic and government administrator, and professor of political science at MIT. From 1965 to 1969, Wood served as the Under Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Lyndon B. Johnson , and for two weeks as the ...
Apr 5, 2005 · April 5, 2005. Robert C. Wood, an academic, writer and bureaucrat whose acumen in domestic issues like housing and education prompted Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson to seek...
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Robert Coldwell Wood was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, on September 16, 1923, and served in the Army during World War II. After the war, he returned to the United States, receiving his B.A. from Princeton in 1946. He then went on to earn an M.A. (1947), M.B.A. (1948), and Ph. D. (1950) from Harvard. While working on his Ph.
Wood, a former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and president of the University of Massachusetts at Boston, was an expert on education, housing, and urban and suburban development.
A distinguished political scientist, specialist on urban affairs, and advisor to two U.S. Presidents, Robert Coldwell Wood was named in 1970 as the first President of the new University of Massachusetts system. The son of a shoe salesman and school teacher, Wood was born in St. Louis on Sept. 16, 1923, and raised in Jacksonville, Florida.
Apr 3, 2005 · Robert Coldwell Wood was born Sept. 16, 1923, in St. Louis and raised in Jacksonville, Fla. He served in the Army in Europe during World War II and participated in the Battle of the Bulge. He...
Description: Bio: Robert Coldwell Wood (b. 1923) was a management organization expert at the U.S. Bureau of the Budget from 1951 to 1954, Under Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from 1966 to 1968, and Secretary of HUD in 1969.
