During the 1940s, this high-ranking and controversial federal government employee headed both the War Relocation Authority and the United States Housing Authority. He later served as President of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs and as Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. After earning an undergraduate education degree from Ohio State University and a master's degree in the same subject from New York's Columbia University, he accepted a teaching position at the University of Kentucky. In the early 1930s, he began working for the federal Department of Agriculture.
