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No . 4 -- 1872
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For Release to ! lf"lrning Newspapers,
Thursday , January 19 , 1 939 .
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HOWARD O• HU1J'.i:ER .A??O rnTE:l DEPUTY ADMilJI ST RA.TOR OF WP A
Colonel F . C. Harringt0n , Works Progress Administrator, today
announced. the appo i ntment of Howard O. Hunt e r as Deputy Administrator of WPA.
Mr . Hunter , who has been Assistant Adrni:.1istrato:?:' anci Field Representative in
charge 0f 13 MidVJestern States , succeeds Aubnw Willi ams , who rec,ently was
nam3d Admi n istrator of t:he National Youth Administration .
The De:puty Administrator will assLL'Ile :his new d-u.t i es Febr-..1 ary 1 .
Mr . Rt.L'lter has 1::leen a field represent at ive in charge of relief and
wor~ r elief activities in the Middle West for five and a half years , se rving
in this capac ity for the Federal Eme r gency Relief Admi nistration and the
Civil Wor ks Administration as we ll as WFA.
O:rerations in t his region hav e
been the largest in WPA , employing from 35 to 40 rer c ont 0f the t o tal
number on WPA r~lls .
During the severe drought thr0ugl,out the Great Plains ar ea in 1 936 ,
Mr. Hunter vras in charge of the W'rA p ro grw,1 frr this Pntir e area.
Again in 1937 he personally dir e d ed emergenc;y- and. rehnbili tati0n
measures fol l owing the d.isastr0us flood in the Ohin Valley and along the
3 e fore assmnin~ direction of the Fede r~l Em9r 6 ency Relief program in
the: Mid.wost , in August , 1935 , Lir . Hunter wo..s assoc i ated with Co!IlIDuni ty Chest
or 6 ani zati,rns fo r 10 ye£1rs •
In ad.di Uon to field wo rk for tho No.tion::11 Ass0ci -
ation nf Community Che sts, out cd IJe,,1 York City , he also was active in this
work in Bridgep0rt , Ccnn., and. Grand. R.3.pid.s , Mic}1 .
Mr . Hunter was b orn in Darien , Ga.
Ee m0v od , at an early ag e , t o
Bat~n RoU{;e , La., where the. family r esided for many years .
U:pnn graduation from Louisiana Stat e University in 1 917 , Mr. Hunter
i r.unodin.tely enlist ed in the army , joiting the Tulo.ne University medical unit .
Ee nerved in Franco fnr 18 months and. was discharged. frrm the army in lfay , 191 0,
Mr . Hunter is married and hP.s two children .
After a c0nference rrith
Colonel Harrington , ho is r e turning tc, Chicago to arrM 6 e his affairs for removal to Wagh ingt on late this month.
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