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Harry L. Hopkins

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Harry L. Hopkins was born in the year 1890 and died in 1946. He was a national relief

supervisor in the Great Depression, where he embodied the system of vast federal work plans to

reduce the rate of unemployment in the 1930s. He was also the representative and closest advisor

of President Franklin Roosevelt during World War II. Harry Hopkins was a social employee in

New York in the 1920s. Hopkins was appointed to be the executive director in the year 1931 and

afterward the head of the “Temporary Emergency Relief Administration” (TERA). Hopkins was

taken to the capital of the nation by Roosevelt when Roosevelt became the president in the year

1933. In the new position as a manager of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Hopkins

persisted with his social work and combined his executive ability with crusading moral fervor,

(Longres, 2013).

The great democratic achievements in the year 1934 elections motivated Hopkins to force

the president to endorse additional improvements in the year’s programs including the overview

of the Work Progress Management in which he was the director. When World War II extended,

Hopkins severally visited the president in London and also in Moscow to talk over work support

and military approaches to the ravaging war. His final social work was in April 19456. When he

visited Moscow to assist in the arrangement of the Potsdam Conference after Roosevelt died.

The major contributions of Harry L. Hopkins were first working as the director of civilian

relief during the First World War which he supported enthusiastically. He later became the

supervisor of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), the Civil Works

Administration (CWA), and the Works Progress Administration (WPA). He also majorly

contributed to the reduction of unemployment rates. He created the above programs which

employed over 90% of the people who were previously unemployed or on relief. Between the

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Running Head: HARRY L. HOPKINS 1 Harry L. Hopkins Name Institution Affiliations Course Title Date HARRY L. HOPKINS 2 Harry L. Hopkins was born in the year 1890 and died in 1946. He was a national relief supervisor in the Great Depression, where he embodied the system of vast federal work plans to reduce the rate of unemployment in the 1930s. He was also the representative and closest advisor of President Franklin Roosevelt during World War II. Harry Hopkins was a social employee in New York in the 1920s. Hopkins was appointed to be the executive director in the year 1931 and afterward the head of the “Temporary Emergency Relief Administration” (TERA). Hopkins was taken to the capital of the nation by Roosevelt when Roosevelt became the president in the year 1933. In the new position as a manager of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Hopkins persisted with his social work and combined his executive ability with crusading moral fervor, (Longres, 2013). The great democratic achievements in the year 1934 elections motivated Hopkins to force the president to endorse additional improvements in the year’s programs including the overview of the Work Progress Managemen ...
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