Works Progress Administration

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Works Progress Administration

US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

Created 6 May 1935 with Executive Order 7034 to cope with the economic effects ot he Depression, disbanded 4 December 1943.

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Saul Bellow Novelist 10-Jun-1915 5-Apr-2005 The Adventures of Augie March

Harry Lloyd Hopkins Government 17-Aug-1890 29-Jan-1946 US Secretary of Commerce, 1938-40

Robert A. Hurley Politician 25-Aug-1895 3-May-1968 Governor of Connecticut, 1941-43

Everett C. Parker Activist 17-Jan-1913 17-Sep-2015 Civil rights advocate, UCC official

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