Background
Bane, Frank was born on April 7, 1893 in Smithfield, Virginia, United States. Son of Charles Lee and Carrie Howard (Buckner) Bane.
Bane, Frank was born on April 7, 1893 in Smithfield, Virginia, United States. Son of Charles Lee and Carrie Howard (Buckner) Bane.
Graduate. Randolph Macon Academy. 1909; Randolph Macon College, Ashland. Virginia., Bachelor of Arts 1913.
Graduate. Student Columbia University, New York, 1914-1915.
Principal high school, Nansemond County, Virginia, 1914, superintendent schools, 1916-1917. Secretary Virginia Board Charities and Corrections, 1920-1923. Director public welfare, Knoxville, 1923-1926.
Associate professor sociology University of Virginia, 1926-1928. Commissioner public welfare Virginia, 1926-1932. Member President’s Emergency Employment Committee, 1930-1931.
Director American Public Welfare Association, 1932-1935. Lecturer public welfare administration University of Chicago, from 1932. Cons., Federal Emergency Relief Administration, 1933, public welfare administration National Institute Public Administration, 1930, Brookings Institution, 1931-1935.
Executive director Federal Social Security Board, 1935-1938. Director division state and local cooperative, advisory commission Council National Defense, 1940-1941. Member civilian protection board Office Civilian Defense, 1941.
Director field operations OPA, 1941-1942. Member homes utilization division National Housing Authority, 1942. Secretary Government's Conference, 1938-1959.
Executive director Council State Govts., 1938-1959. Member of advisory council Social Security, United States Senate Committee on Finance, 1947. Director research federal-state relations Committee on Organisation executive branch government, 1948.
Chairman consultant group medical education office Surgical General United States Public Health Service, 1959. Chairman Advisory Commission Intergovtl. Relations, from 1959.
Regent’s professor government University of California, Berkeley, 1944-1945.
Member President’s Emergency Employment Committee, 1930-1931. Member civilian protection board Office Civilian Defense, 1941. Member homes utilization division National Housing.
Member of advisory council Social Security, United States Senate Committee on Finance, 1947. Served with A.C., United States Army, World War I. Member American Political Science Association Kappa Sigma.
Club: Quadrangle.
Married Lillian Greyson Hoofnagle, August 14, 1918. Children: Mary Clark, Frank.