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Rexford Guy Tugwell

(born July 10, 1891, Sinclairville, N.Y., U.S. — died July 21, 1979, Santa Barbara, Calif.) U.S. economist. He joined the economics faculty of Columbia University in 1920, and in 1932 he became a member of the Brain Trust that advised Franklin D. Roosevelt. Appointed undersecretary of agriculture, he helped formulate farm policy and other New Deal economic reforms (1933 – 36). He chaired the New York City Planning Commission (1938 – 41), served as governor of Puerto Rico (1941 – 46), and taught at the University of Chicago (1946 – 57).

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