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Hugh S. Johnson

Hugh Samuel Johnson (August 5, 1882 – April 15, 1942) was a United States Army officer, businessman, speech writer, government official and newspaper columnist. He was a member of the Brain Trust of Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1932 to 1934. He wrote numerous speeches for FDR and helped plan the New Deal. Appointed head of the National Recovery Administration (NRA) in 1933, he was highly energetic in his "blue eagle" campaign to reorganize American business to reduce competition and raise wages and prices. Schlesinger (1958) and Ohl (1985) conclude that he was an excellent organizer, but that he was also domineering, abusive, outspoken, and unable to work harmoniously with his peers. He lost control of the NRA in August 1934.[2]

For other people with the same name, see Hugh Johnson (disambiguation).

Hugh S. Johnson

Hugh Samuel Johnson

"Iron Pants"

(1882-08-05)August 5, 1882
Fort Scott, Kansas, U.S.

April 15, 1942(1942-04-15) (aged 59)[1]
Washington, D.C., U.S.

United States

United States Army

1903–1919

Brigadier general

Cavalry Branch

World War I

Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army)

Philippine Campaign Medal

Mexican Service Medal

World War I Victory Medal (United States)

Bellush, Bernard. The Failure of the NRA (1975)

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Cullum, George Washington. Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.: From Its Establishment, in 1802, to 1890. 3d ed. New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1920.

Hampton, H. Duane. How the U.S. Cavalry Saved Our National Parks. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1971.  0-253-13885-X

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For the Survival of Democracy: Franklin Roosevelt and the World Crisis of the 1930s. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004. ISBN 0-684-84340-4

Hamby, Alonzo L.

Hawley, Ellis W. The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly: A Study in Economic Ambivalence (1966) on NRA

Ohl, John Kennedy. Hugh S. Johnson and the New Deal. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois Univ Press, 1985.  0-87580-110-2, standard scholarly biography

ISBN

Ohl, John Kennedy. "Tales Told by a New Dealer: General Hugh S. Johnson," Montana: The Magazine Of Western History 1975 25(4): 66–77

Schlesinger, Arthur Jr. The Coming of the New Deal (1958), extensive coverage of Johnson's NRA

Schwarz, Jordan A. The New Dealers: Power politics in the age of Roosevelt (Vintage, 2011) pp 93–108.

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White, James Terry. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms, 1967.

"1933 Man of Year." Time. January 1, 1934.

Archived 2011-06-09 at the Wayback Machine

Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture – Johnson, Hugh