Rexford Tugwell
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican economist, academic, and former governor of Puerto Rico (1891-1979)
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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 up to Roosevelt's New Deal. Tugwell served in FDR's administration until he was forced out in 1936.
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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
Tugwell and President Roosevelt inspecting the construction progress at the Greenbelt, Maryland town site, in February 1937.
Tugwell c. 1960Awards 1
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About this person
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United StatesCategory
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1891 to 1979 · aged 88
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