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    Harold L. Ickes

    American politician (–)

    Harold Ickes

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    In office
    March 4, &#;– February 15,
    PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt
    Harry S. Truman
    DeputyOscar L. Chapman(acting)
    Preceded byRay Lyman Wilbur
    Succeeded byJulius Krug
    In office
    July 8, [1]&#;– [2]
    PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt
    Preceded byposition established[3]
    Succeeded byE. W. Clark[2]
    In office
    October 12, &#;– September 14,
    PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt
    Harry S. Truman
    Preceded byFrancis Bowes Sayre Sr.
    Succeeded byPaul V. McNutt
    Born

    Harold LeClair Ickes


    ()March 15,
    Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    DiedFebruary 3, () (aged&#;77)
    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Political partyRepublican
    Spouses

    Jane Dahlman

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    Children4, including Harold
    EducationUniversity of Chicago (BA, LLB)

    Harold LeClair Ickes (IK-əs; March 15, –

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    Back in I was in a mess. My software business was losing money. I was deep in debt, working all hours, thrashing around like a drowning swimmer. Then a friend gave me some of the best advice I’ve ever received. “You’re doing yourself no good;” she said, “each week you need to take some time off work. But if you decide to do this, every week there will be some good reason why you can’t. You need to find something that forces you to take time out, whatever else is going on.”

    Just then my local college (West London Institute of Higher Education as was) was running ads in my local paper, “Study for a degree, two evenings a week.” Without thinking too hard, I signed up, subject ‘Business and Computer Studies’. Unlike my first degree, this was a modular degree, made up of 18 modules each taking half a year. Full time students would take three at a time, three years; part time students, two, so four and a half years.

    An extra twist was that first-year students had to take two non-cognate

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    Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, by T. H. Watkins(, words, 54 illustrations)

    Born in rural western Pennsylvania, Harold LeClair Ickes (), son of a gambler, womanizer, drunk father and of a strictly reared Presbyterian mother, grew up desperately poor and desperately ambitious. He became a Chicago newsman during its gilded era, a key figure in the Progressive Party, and in FDR’s cabinet became America’s longest serving and most influential Interior Secretary. As Interior Secretary, he helped change the face of America, forging that department into the most powerful tool for the protection of our lands. One of his colleagues was Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, America’s first woman Cabinet member. Ickes was also a major force in re