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Tugwell was born in Sinclairsville , New York and studied at the University Of Pennsylvania 's Wharton School Of Finance And Commerce . After graduation, he became a professor at the University Of Washington , American University In Paris , and Columbia University . In 1933 , Tugwell was appointed to work in Roosevelt's administration, working in the United States Department Of Agriculture . In 1934 , he was promoted to Under Under Secretary of the department, then became the head of the Resettlement Administration, a federal agency that relocated the urban poor to the suburbs and impoverished farmers to new rural communities. In 1937 , when the RA came under political fire for being overly utopian and socialistic, he resigned from his position in the administration, but subsequently returned to public life the following year when he was appointed to the New York Planning Commission . Tugwell was appointed Governor of Puerto Rico from 1942 to 1946. After his stint as governor, he returned to teaching -- at the University of Chicago -- until his retirement; significantly, he moved to Greenbelt, MD, a suburb of Washington DC designed and built by the Resettlement Administration under his direction. During this time, he wrote several books including a biography of Grover Cleveland, subtitled: "A Biography of the President Whose Uncompromising Honesty and Integrity Failed America in a Time of Crisis." (Macmillan Company, New York (1968)) He also wrote a biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt entitled "FDR: An Architect of an Era." REXFORD TUGWELL IN FICTION Several characters in the Philip K. Dick novel '' The Man In The High Castle '' read a popular, although banned, book called ''The Grasshopper Lies Heavy'' by Hawthorne Abdensen in which the Axis powers lost the war. In ''The Grasshopper Lies Heavy'', an attempt is made on Roosevelt's life, which he survives, but he does not run for reelection in 1940 . The next president, Rexford Tugwell, (who in our reality never ran for the presidency), mitigates the bombing of Pearl Harbor by sailing the U.S.'s Pacific fleet, so the U.S. enters World War II with more naval power. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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