In office November 2, 1949 – January 20, 1953 Acting: November 2, 1949 – May 10, 1950
President
Harry S. Truman
Preceded by
Edwin Griswold Nourse
Succeeded by
Arthur F. Burns
Personal details
Born
(1908-01-11)January 11, 1908 Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
Died
August 9, 1987(1987-08-09) (aged 79) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political party
Democratic
Spouse
Mary Dublin
Education
Columbia University (BA) Harvard University (JD)
Leon Hirsch Keyserling (January 11, 1908 – August 9, 1987)[1] was an American economist and lawyer who served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1950 to 1953. During his tenure, he advised President Harry S. Truman on the economic issues and helped draft major pieces of Fair Deal legislation.
^"Leon H. Keyserling Papers". Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. Retrieved 2009-01-11.
While there, Keyserling studied under Rexford Tugwell, but never finished his dissertation. Keyserling married Mary Dublin Keyserling, also an economist...
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the President may request. In 1949 Chairman Edwin Nourse and member LeonKeyserling argued about whether the advice should be private or public and about...
her career as head of the United States Women's Bureau, Keyserling and her husband LeonKeyserling faced loyalty allegations during the Red Scare that impacted...
thought in terms of abundance rather than depression scarcity. Economist LeonKeyserling argued that the liberal task was to spread the benefits of abundance...
President Harry S. Truman was sceptical of Keynesian theorising. He told LeonKeyserling, a Keynesian economist who chaired Truman's Council of Economic Advisers:...
the future chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers LeonKeyserling, suggested that the massive increase in military spending could be...
nearly eliminated from the bill, but Senator Wagner, Jerome Frank, and LeonKeyserling (another Roosevelt aide) worked to retain the section in order to win...
subsequently resigned from Brookings to become its first chairman, with LeonKeyserling as his vice-chairman and John D. Clark as a member. Nourse was an elected...
thought in terms of abundance rather than depression scarcity. Economist LeonKeyserling argued that the liberal task was to spread the benefits of abundance...
force behind defense cuts, was appointed Secretary of the Army, and LeonKeyserling, a Keynesian economist, replaced Edwin Nourse as the chairman of the...
(Americana Hotel, NYC) Speakers: James Farmer (civil rights advocate), LeonKeyserling (economist), Senator Eugene McCarthy, Benjamin Naumoff (regional director...
Broby-Johansen, 86, Danish art historian, communist activist and writer. LeonKeyserling, 79, American economist and lawyer, chairman of the Council of Economic...
was first described by Eugen Keyserling in 1863, as Epeira oaxacensis. The specific name oaxacensis refers to Keyserling's description of its origin as...
Art Carl Benjamin Boyer (1928), historian of science and mathematics LeonKeyserling (1928), head of the Council of Economic Advisers under Harry S Truman...
his book, Mr. Citizen, autographed by Truman to his Chief Economist, LeonKeyserling; a novelty can of elephant manure from the Washington Park Zoo, which...
(1896–1981), m. Count Hermann von Keyserling (1880–1946) Count Manfred von Keyserling (1920–2008) Count Arnold Keyserling (1922–2005), renowned philosopher...
CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link) "Family Sicariidae Keyserling, 1880", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2018-07-17...
compulsory, inefficient, and monopolistic. In an oral history interview, Leon H. Keyserling said the New Deal's National Industrial Recovery Act "started as a...
Amer. L. Reg. 89 (5): 648–660. doi:10.2307/3309199. JSTOR 3309199. Keyserling, Leon H. (1960–1961). "The Wagner Act: Its Origin and Current Significance"...
Johnson, Chalmers Jordan, David C. Kampelman, Max M. Kemp, Geoffrey Keyserling, Leon H. Kirkland, Lane Kirkpatrick, Jeanne J. Kohler Foy D. Krogh, Peter...
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