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Harold L. Ickes. Harold LeClair Ickes ( / ˈɪkəs / 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 ...
Harold L. Ickes was a U.S. social activist who became a prominent member of the New Deal Democratic administration of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Admitted to the Illinois bar in 1907, Ickes early developed an aroused social conscience; he worked as a volunteer in a settlement house, frequently.
Harold L. Ickes papers, Summary Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, family papers, legal and financial records, subject files, scrapbooks, and other papers documenting all aspects of Ickes's career especially his service as U.S. secretary of the interior.
Last week Harry Truman slapped Ickes down, by saying that the Curmudgeon could very well have been mistaken. Harold Ickes resigned.
Harold LeClaire Ickes was born March 15, 1874, in Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1897 and returned to study the law, graduating in 1907. Ickes began his career as a reporter for the Chicago Record, eventually rising to the post of assistant political editor before returning to school and becoming an attorney.
Harold Ickes was born in Franklin Township, Pennsylvania, on March 15, 1874. He attended the University of Chicago, from which he received both a B.A. (1897) and an LL.D. (1907). After finishing law school, Ickes practiced in Chicago, where he also served as a Republican committeeman.
Mar 12, 2018 · He served throughout the presidential tenure of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, from 1933 to 1946, one of only two cabinet secretaries who lasted as long in office as Roosevelt himself. Harold Ickes. Ickes was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, but moved as a teenager to Chicago with his family.
