Harry Lloyd Hopkins (1890-1946), American statesman, was a Federal relief administrator and personal confidant and emissary of President Roosevelt during World War II. Harry Hopkins was born in Sioux City, lowa, on Aug. 17, 1890, the son of a harness...
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...
Harry Hopkins, Ally of the Poor and Defender of Democracy I arrived in Washington to take up a positionin the New Deal almost exactly 53 years ago as this issue of The Washington Monthly comes off the press. I was not a decisive...
One hot summer day in 1935, federal relief administrator Harry Hopkins presented his plan for alleviating the effects of the Great Depression to a group of shirt-sleeved Iowa farmers, not noted for their liberal ideals. As Hopkins began to describe how government-sponsored jobs on...
