Joseph Dodge

For the American legal academic, see Joseph M. Dodge.
Joseph Dodge
Dodge (right) meets Hayato Ikeda, 1948
10th Director of the Bureau of the Budget
In office
January 22, 1953 – April 15, 1954
PresidentDwight D. Eisenhower
Preceded byFrederick Lawton
Succeeded byRowland Hughes
Personal details
Born
Joseph Morrell Dodge

(1890-11-18)November 18, 1890
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
DiedDecember 2, 1964(1964-12-02) (aged 74)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Political partyRepublican

Joseph Morrell Dodge (November 18, 1890 – December 2, 1964) was a chairman of the Detroit Bank, now Comerica. He later served as an economic adviser for postwar economic stabilization programs in Germany and Japan, headed the American delegation to the Austrian Advisory commission, and worked as President Dwight D. Eisenhower's director of the Bureau of the Budget.[1]

Dodge formed economic reconstruction plans for West Germany after World War II, and implemented financial reforms in 1948. He later moved to Japan, having drafted another economic stabilization plan, widely known as the "Dodge Line", in December 1948, as the financial adviser to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP), General Douglas MacArthur.[2] Arriving in February 1949 to implement these reforms, Dodge served as a "lightning-rod" to redirect fiscal criticism away from MacArthur and chose to keep a low profile.[2]

  1. ^ "Dodge, Joseph Morrell." American National Biography 6, (1999): 690-692.
  2. ^ a b Thorsten, Marie. and Yoneyuki Sugita. "Joseph Dodge and the geometry of power in US-Japan relations." Japanese Studies: 1981-2012. Vol. 19. no. 3 (1999):297-314. doi:10. 1080/10371399908727684.