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Article: Hopkins, Harry Lloyd
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HOPKINS, HARRY LLOYD
Harry Hopkins (1890
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1946) was one of the major architects and managers of the New Deal during the Great Depression (1929
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1939) and he was a major U.S. policymaker during World War II (1939
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1945). Brought to Washington, DC, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933
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1945) to administer public relief programs during the Depression, Hopkins went on to become one of Roosevelt's closest advisors during World War II.
Harry Lloyd Hopkins was the younger of two children born to David and Anna Hopkins. He was born in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1890, and grew up largely in Grinnell, Iowa.
His father was a moderately successful traveling salesman who ...