Profile
Harry Hopkins
Politician + 8th United States Secretary of Commerce
Male
Born
Aug 17, 1890
Hometown
Sioux City, Iowa
Died
Jan 29, 1946
Death Place
New York City
Political Party
Democratic Party ...
Alma Mater
Grinnell College
Other Names
Hopkins, Harry Lloyd
Harry Lloyd Hopkins 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 directed and built into the largest employer… Read More
Romance
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Louise Macy Hopkins GatesMarried 1942 - 1946
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Barbara Duncan HopkinsMarried 1931 - 1937
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Ethel Gross HopkinsMarried 1913 - 1929
Family
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Harry Hopkins
d.1946
children
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Diana HopkinsDaughter
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Stephen HopkinsSon
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Robert HopkinsSon
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David HopkinsSon
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1890
Birth
Born in 1890.
TWENTIES
1912
22 Years Old
Hopkins attended Grinnell College and soon after his graduation in 1912 took a job with Christodora House, a social settlement in New York City's Lower East Side ghetto.
1913
23 Years Old
In the spring of 1913 he accepted a position from John A. Kingsbury of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (AICP) as "friendly visitor" and superintendent of the Employment Bureau within the AICP's Department of Family Welfare.
During the 1915 recession, Hopkins and the AICP's William Matthews, with $5,000 from Elizabeth Milbank Anderson's Milbank Memorial Fund, organized the Bronx Park Employment program, one of the first public employment programs in the U.S.
1917
27 Years Old
Hopkins at first opposed America's entrance into World War I, but when war was declared in 1917 he supported it enthusiastically.
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THIRTIES
1921
31 Years Old
Eventually, the Gulf Division of the Red Cross merged with the Southwestern Division and Hopkins, headquartered now in Atlanta, was appointed general manager in 1921.
1922
32 Years Old
In 1922, Hopkins returned to New York City where the AICP was involved with the Milbank Memorial Fund and the State Charities Aid Association in running three health demonstrations in New York State.
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1923
33 Years Old
Hopkins helped draft a charter for the American Association of Social Workers (AASW) and was elected its president in 1923.
1924
34 Years Old
In mid-1924 he became executive director of the New York Tuberculosis Association. During his tenure, the agency grew enormously and absorbed the New York Heart Association. In 1931, New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt named R. H. Macy's department store president Jesse Straus as president of the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (TERA).
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FORTIES
1932
42 Years Old
His efficient administration of the initial $20 million outlay to the agency gained Roosevelt's attention, and in 1932, he promoted Hopkins to the presidency of the agency.
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1933
43 Years Old
In March 1933, Roosevelt summoned Hopkins to Washington as federal relief administrator.
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FIFTIES
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He went to Moscow in July 1941 to make personal contact with Joseph Stalin.
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1942
52 Years Old
Roosevelt brought him along as advisor to his meetings with Churchill at Cairo, Tehran, Casablanca in 1942-43, and Yalta in 1945.
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Although Hopkins' health was steadily declining, Roosevelt sent him on additional trips to Europe in 1945; he attended the Yalta Conference in February 1945.
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1946
56 Years Old
Hopkins died in New York City in January 1946, succumbing to a long and debilitating battle with stomach cancer.
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