Robert C. Weaver
Robert Clifton Weaver (born December 29, 1907 in Washington, DC , † July 17, 1997 in New York City ) was an American university professor and politician . He was US Minister of Construction from 1966 to 1968, at the same time he was the first African American Minister in the US under President Lyndon B. Johnson .
Life
After attending school, he studied at Harvard University , graduating in 1929 with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) and in 1931 with a Master of Arts (MA). In 1934 he received his PhD in Philosophiae Doctor ( PhD ). He began his professional career in 1933 as assistant to Interior Minister Harold L. Ickes . In 1937 he was special assistant to the Housing Authority , before he was then in 1940 administrative assistant to the National Defense Advisory Commission ( National Defense Advisory Commission ).
In 1947 he accepted an appointment as professor of education at New York University and was then director of the scholarship program of the John H. Whitney Foundation from 1949 to 1954. Between 1951 and 1962, Weaver was a board member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States, and was its chairman from 1960 to 1962.
In 1955 he was appointed commission agent for rents in New York State before becoming an advisor to the Ford Foundation in 1959 . He then became vice chairman of the New York State Department for Housing and Road Rehabilitation in 1960. In 1961, he was appointed head of the US Housing & Home Finance Agency . In 1965 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
On 18 January 1966 he was of US President Lyndon B. Johnson for the first Minister of Housing and Urban Development of the United States ( Secretary of Housing and Urban Development appointed). At the same time, he was the first African American in a US government. Weaver was a member of the Johnson cabinet until December 18, 1968, one month before the end of his term in office.
After leaving the government, he first became President of Baruch College in 1969 , before accepting the position of professor of urbanization at Hunter College in 1970, where he taught until 1978.
He died in 1997 at the age of 89.
Fonts
Weaver was also the author of several specialist books on the situation of colored people in the USA, but also on questions of urbanization and town planning such as:
- Negro Labor: A National Problem (1946)
- The Negro Ghetto (1948)
- The Urban Complex: Human Values in Urban Life (1964)
- Dilemmas of Urban America (1965)
Web links
- Robert C. Weaver in the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia (English)
- Robert C. Weaver in the nndb (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Weaver, Robert C. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weaver, Robert Clifton (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American politician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington, DC |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 17, 1997 |
| Place of death | New York City |