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Harry L. Hopkins

Harry Hopkins
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8th United States Secretary of Commerce
In office
December 24, 1938 – September 18, 1940
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Preceded by Daniel C. Roper
Succeeded by Jesse H. Jones
Personal details
Born Harry Lloyd Hopkins
August 17, 1890
Sioux City, Iowa United States
Died January 29, 1946 (aged 55)
New York City, New York, United States
Cause of death stomach cancer
Resting place Hazelwood Cemetery, Grinnell, Iowa, United States
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Ethel Gross Hopkins
(m. 1913 – 1929, divorced)
Barbara Duncan Hopkins
(died 1937)
Louise Macy Hopkins
Children David Hopkins
Robert Hopkins
Stephen P. Hopkins
Barbara Hopkins
Diana Hopkins
Alma mater Grinnell College
Profession Government

Harry Lloyd Hopkins (August 17, 1890 – January 29, 1946) was an American social worker and one of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisors. 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 in the country. In World War II, he was Roosevelt's chief diplomatic adviser and troubleshooter and was a key policy maker in the Lend-Lease program that sent an eventual $50 billion of aid to the Allies; Winston Churchill in his memoirs devotes a veritable panegyric to this "natural leader of men" who had "a flaming soul". Hopkins dealt with "priorities, production. political problems with allies, strategy—in short, with anything that might concern the president."

Hopkins was born at 512 Tenth Street in Sioux City, Iowa, the fourth child of four sons and one daughter of David Aldona and Anna (née Pickett) Hopkins. His father, born in Bangor, Maine, ran a harness shop (after an erratic career as a salesman, prospector, storekeeper and bowling-alley operator), but his real passion was bowling, and he eventually returned to it as a business. Anna Hopkins, born in Hamilton, Ontario, had moved at an early age to Vermillion, South Dakota, where she married David. She was deeply religious and active in the affairs of the Methodist church. Shortly after Harry was born, the family moved successively to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Kearney and Hastings, Nebraska. They spent two years in Chicago and finally settled in Grinnell, Iowa.


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