Background
Fox, Abraham Manual was born on May 14, 1889 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Louis Dembitz and Anne (Berner) Fox.
Fox, Abraham Manual was born on May 14, 1889 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Louis Dembitz and Anne (Berner) Fox.
Civil Engineer, Cornell, 1911 (New York State and Pulitzer scholarships, 1907). Master of Arts, New York University, 1924.
Fellow in transportation and instructor, University of Michigan, 1911-1914. With cost department, Dodge Brothers Motor Company, Detroit, 1915. Investigator, Detroit Street Railway and telephone cases, 1916.
Examiner, Michigan State, Tax Commission, also efficiency expert, Empire Art Metal Company, College Point, New York, 1917.
Assistant to valuation counsel, New York City Railroad, 1918-1921. Lecturer department of economics and School of Business and Civ.
Administration, College City of New York, 1920-1924. Economist, United States Tariff Commission, Washington, District of Columbia, 1923-1924, chief of economics division, 1924-1937, chairman advisory board and member planning and reviewing committee, 1924-1935.
Lecturer, Knights of Columbus Evening School, Washington, 1923-1926.
Associate professor economics, Catholic University of America, Washington, 1924-1929. Director research, United States Tariff Commission, Washington, 1934-1937, and chairman, planning and reviewing committee, 1935-1937. Member United States Tariff Commission, 1937-1941.
V. chairman, Committee for Reciprocity information, 1938-1941.
Chairman, American Advisory Economics Mission to Venezuela, 1939. American member of American-Chinese Stabilization Fund Board since 1941.
Fellow in transportation and instructor, University of Michigan, 1911-1914. Member United States Tariff Commission, 1937-1941. Member American Economics Association American Statistical Society, Beta Sigma Rho, Pi Gamma Museum.
Mason.
Clubs: Cornell, Cosmos.
Married Dorothy Convissor, September 7, 1911. Children: Myra Crandall, Melvin James.