Eugene P. Foley
Eugene P. Foley | |
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5thAdministrator of the Small Business Administration | |
In office August 8, 1963 – September 10, 1965 | |
President | John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson |
Preceded by | John E. Horne |
Succeeded by | Bernard L. Boutin |
Personal details | |
Born | Wabasha, Minnesota,United States | November 22, 1928
Died | December 30, 2015 Whitefish, Montana,United States | (aged 87)
Political party | Democratic |
Eugene Patrick Foley(November 22, 1928 – December 30, 2015) was an American political strategist who served asAdministrator of the Small Business Administrationfrom 1963 to 1965.[1]He left to become the Assistant Secretary of Commerce in charge of theEconomic Development Administrationin October 1965[2]for a year[3]before leaving government.[4]His work at the EDA was covered in books such as "Oakland's Not for Burning" 1968 by Amory Bradford and he wrote of it in "The Achieving Ghetto" (1968). On leaving the EDA in 1966 he said "because I could see the way the wind was blowing. Commerce was cracking down on EDA--the White House had decided that EDA should not be spending money in cities. Vietnam was eating everything up."[5]
Foley ran for theUnited States House of Representativesseat forMinnesota's 1st congressional districtas aDemocratic-Farmer-Laborcandidate in 1958, but lost toAl Quie.[6]
He died of natural causes on December 30, 2015, inWhitefish, Montanaat age 87.[7]
References
[edit]- ^"July 23, 1963 - Kennedy picks Eugene Foley as head of SBA".Archives.chicagotribune.com. 1963-07-23.Retrieved2017-06-18.
- ^Implementation: How Great Expectations in Washington are Dashed in Oakland; Or, Why It's Amazing that Federal Programs Work at All, This Being a Saga of the Economic Development Administration as Told by Two Sympathetic Observers Who Seek to Build Morals on a Foundation of Ruined Hopes. By Jeffrey L. Pressman and Aaron Wildavsky, Second Edition 1979, pg. 11
- ^Pressman and Wildavsky, 1979, p. 31
- ^"Eugene P. Foley, Dreamer with Twinkle in His Eye, Pioneered Affirmative Action and Championed Small Business".The Vineyard Gazette. 2016-01-05.Retrieved2017-06-18.
- ^Pressman and Wildavsky, 1979, p. 31
- ^"Minnesota Historical Election Archive".
- ^"Eugene P. Foley, Dreamer with Twinkle in His Eye, Pioneered Affirmative Action and Championed Small Business".The Vineyard Gazette. 2016-01-05.Retrieved2017-06-18.