Calvin Benham Baldwin | |
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Born | Radford, Virginia, US | August 19, 1902
Died | May 12, 1975 Bethesda, Maryland, US | (aged 72)
Other names | Beanie Baldwin |
Alma mater | Virginia Polytechnic Institute |
Occupation(s) | Government official, union and political activist |
Years active | 1923–1955 |
Employer | New Deal government |
Known for | Administrator of New Deal's Farm Security Administration, 1948 campaign manager for Progressive Party's Henry A. Wallace, "accused of radicalism and of trying to 'communize American agriculture'" (NYT)[1] |
Spouse(s) | Louise Delp (first), Lillian Hoell (second) |
Children | 2 |
Calvin Benham Baldwin, also known as Calvin B Baldwin, C.B. Baldwin, and generally as "Beanie" Baldwin (August 19, 1902 – May 12, 1975), served as assistant to US Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace and administrator of the New Deal's Farm Security Administration in the 1930s, worked for the CIO in the 1940s, and then worked with the Progressive Party from 1948 to 1955.[1][2]