Rexford Tugwell
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Rexford Guy Tugwell was an American economist who became part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first "Brain Trust", a group of Columbia University academics who helped develop policy recommendations leading
Tugwell c. 1935–1936
Tugwell in the University of Pennsylvania yearbook, 1915
Tugwell in 1922
Tugwell (right) with California State Senator Culbert Olson at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, October 28, 1935
Resettlement Administration
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The Resettlement Administration was a New Deal U.S. federal agency created May 1, 1935. It relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government. On September
Rexford Tugwell
…economy out of the Great Depression because private businesses were too frozen in place to do the job. He helped design the New Deal farm program and the Resettlement Administration that moved subsistence farmers into small rented farms under close supervision. His ideas on suburban planning resulted in the construction of Greenbelt…
Resettlement Administration poster by Bernarda Bryson Shahn (c. 1936)
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace (left) with Will W. Alexander, appointed to head the Resettlement Administration (December 22, 1936)