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Harold LeClair Ickes (/ ˈ ɪ k ə s / IK-əs; March 15, 1874 – February 3, 1952) was an American administrator, politician and lawyer.He served as United States Secretary of the Interior for nearly 13 years from 1933 to 1946, the longest tenure of anyone to hold the office, and the second longest-serving Cabinet member in U.S. history after James Wilson.
In 1990, Watkins published a biography on Harold L. Ickes with over a thousand pages. For his book, Watkins included political events between the 1920s to 1940s while also including background information on the United States Department of the Interior. [8] To write his biography, Watkins consulted Ickes's diary as part of his research. [9]
The Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. It was created by the National Industrial Recovery Act in June 1933 in response to the Great Depression.
The Autobiography of a Curmudgeon, a 1943 autobiography of New Deal politician Harold L. Ickes (OCLC: 456599) Strange Fruit, a 1944 bestselling novel debut by American author Lillian Smith (OCLC: 5280871)
Harold Ickes may refer to: Harold L. Ickes (1874–1952), U.S. Secretary of the Interior in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration Harold M. Ickes (born 1939), son of the U.S. Interior Secretary, deputy White House Chief of Staff during the administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton
Harold McEwen Ickes (/ ˈ ɪ k iː z /; born September 4, 1939) is the former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for President Bill Clinton. He was a leading figure in the Clinton administration's healthcare reform initiative. [1] Ickes is the son of Harold L. Ickes, who was Secretary of the Interior under Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Before he was seated on the bench, Harold L. Ickes, a key figure in the Roosevelt administration, indicated that Bazelon's activities as head of the Office of Alien Property warranted a Senate investigation but predicted none would be forthcoming. [27]
America's 60 Families is a book by American journalist Ferdinand Lundberg published in 1937 by Vanguard Press. It is an argumentative analysis of wealth and class in the United States, and how they are leveraged for purposes of political and economic power, specifically by what the author contends is a "plutocratic circle" composed of a tightly interlinked group of 60 families.