Franklin D Roosevelt Appointment of Lowell Mellet

Lowell Mellet was a prominent journalist in the first half of the twentieth century, having covered the Democratic National Convention in 1900, British and French armies in World War I, and Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal Programs. Because of his positive reviews of the program, Mellett had increasingly close ties with the President.

In 1938, after quitting his job at the Washington Daily News, FDR appointed Mellett the head of the National Emergency Council and thus became an Administrative Assistant. Mellett was further appointed as the head of the Office of Government Reports, where he ran analyses on newspapers, researched public opinion and relayed information to the President.

This document is the historic appointment of Mellett to the head of the National Emergency Council, signed by both Roosevelt and then Secretary of State Cordell Hull.

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