William F. Willoughby
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William Franklin Willoughby (1867-1960) was an author of public administration
texts including works on budgeting. He often worked with his twin brother, Westel W. Willoughby
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Public administration
Public Administration houses the implementation of government policy and an academic discipline that studies this implementation and that prepares civil servants for this work. As a "field of inquiry with a diverse scope" its "fundamental goal.....
texts including works on budgeting. He often worked with his twin brother, Westel W. Willoughby
Westel W. Willoughby
Westel Woodbury Willoughby , was an American academic.He was the twin brother to William F. Willoughby. They were the sons of Westel Willoughby and Jennie Rebecca Willoughby, their father having been a Major in the Union Army with the New York Volunteers, injured at the Battle of Chancellorsville...
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Biography
He was born on 20 July 1867 in Alexandria, VirginiaAlexandria, Virginia
Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of 2009, the city had a total population of 139,966. Located along the Western bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria is approximately six miles south of downtown Washington, D.C.Like the rest of northern Virginia, as well as...
- Died: 6 May 1960 of a heart attack, Newport News, Virginia
- Graduated from Johns Hopkins UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityThe Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
, 1885 - Siblings: brother, Westel Woodbury Willoughby (1867-1945); sister, Alice Estelle Willoughby
- Wife: Bessie Talbot (Appleby) Willoughby
Leadership Positions
- Statistical expert for U.S. Department of Labor, 1885
- Member of International Jury of Awards, Paris Exposition of 1900
- Instructor of economics at Harvard, 1901
- First Director of Brookings InstitutionBrookings InstitutionThe Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C., in the United States. One of Washington's oldest think tanks, Brookings conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and...
- Treasurer, secretary, and president of Executive Council of Puerto Rico of the Island of Puerto RicoPuerto RicoPuerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
, appointed Nov. 9 1901 by President Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909 - Assistant director of U.S. Census, 1910
- Member of U.S. Commission of Economy and Efficiency in Government
- McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton, 1912
- Deputy legal advisor to president of China, 1914-1916
- Director of the Institute for Government Research, 1916-1932
- President of the American Political Science AssociationAmerican Political Science AssociationThe American Political Science Association is a professional association of political science students and scholars in the United States. Founded in 1903, it publishes three academic journals...
, 1931-1932 - Consultant to the Library of Congress, 1940-1944
Publications
- The Government of Modern States, The Century Co., 1919
- Government Organization in War Time and After: A Survey of the Federal Civil Agencies Created for the Prosecution of the War, 1919
- The National Budget System, With Suggestions for Its Improvement, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1927
- Financial Condition and Operations of the National Government 1921-1930, The Brookings Institution, 1931