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'''Rexford Guy Tugwell''' was the most influential ideologue of [[economic planning]] in the administration of President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and the [[New Deal]].
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'''Rexford Guy Tugwell''' was the most influential ideologue of [[economic planning]] in the administration of President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and the [[New Deal]].  He was a leading liberal proponent of the [[welfare state]], but held only minor jobs.
    
==Background==
 
==Background==
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Tugwell came from a New York State farm, went from high school to the Wharton School of Business and then began as a teacher at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Washington and finally Columbia. [[Ray Moley]], who knew him at Columbia, drafted him for Roosevelt's [[Brain Trust]] in 1932 and when Roosevelt was inaugurated Tugwell was made Assistant Secretary of Agriculture under [[Henry Wallace]].  
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Tugwell came from a New York State farm, went from high school to the Wharton School of Business and then began as a teacher at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Washington and finally Columbia. [[Raymond Moley]], who knew him at Columbia, drafted him for Roosevelt's [[Brain Trust]] in 1932 and when Roosevelt was inaugurated Tugwell was made Assistant Secretary of Agriculture under [[Henry Wallace]].  
    
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[[Category:New Deal]]
 
[[Category:New Deal]]
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[[category:Welfare State]]
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