Clawson Roop

James Clawson Roop (born October 3, 1888 in Upland , Pennsylvania , † January 23, 1972 in Fairfield , Connecticut ) was an American economic manager and government official who was director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) between 1929 and 1933 .

Life

Roop, son of Albert A. Roop and his wife Mary Clawson Roop, began after attending the Blight School in Philadelphia in 1905 to study electrical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania , which he completed in 1909 with a Bachelor of Science (BS Electrical Engineering) . He then worked as a lecturer in electrical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania between 1909 and 1910 and then from 1910 to 1915 for the Philadelphia and West Chester Traction Company . He then worked from 1915 to 1916 as a consultant to Professor GF Sever at New York University (NYU) and from 1916 to 1917 as an engineer for construction and test work at JG White Management Corporation .

During the First World War , Roop served as a captain , major and most recently as a lieutenant colonel in the engineering corps of the US Army between 1917 and 1919 , and since November 1918 as a member of the staff of the Allied Military Committee for Supplies and Assistant to the General Purchaser of the US Army, before joining the US Army between 1919 and 1921 worked as an engineer for general supervisory and special reporting procedures on public works. In June 1922 he became an employee in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), where he was last assistant director between January and June 1922. For his services in World War I, he was awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal in 1922 . He then worked from 1922 to 1925 for the Woods Brothers Construction Company in Lincoln and from May 1925 to October 1926 President of Monomarks, Inc. He then worked for the Dawes Brothers, Inc. in Chicago from 1926 to 1929 and between April and 1926 July 1929 as a member of the Dominican Economics Commission .

On August 15, 1929, Roop, who was a member of the Republican Party, was appointed by US President Herbert Hoover to succeed Herbert Lord as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and held this office until March 3, 1933, whereupon Lewis Williams Douglas succeeded him. After retiring from government service, he worked for the airline Pan-American Airways, Inc. from 1935 and was most recently its vice president and chief financial officer until 1949. In 1949 he was briefly adviser to the chairman of the munitions committee.

Roop married Rebecca Haigh on March 7, 1929.

Web links

• Entry in prabook.com
• James Clawson Roop Dies at 84; Former US Budget Director . In: The New York Times, January 24, 1972

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry in The Hall of Valor Project
2. ↑ US Director, Office of Management and Budget