Background
Draper, Ernest Gallaudet was born on May 15, 1885 in Washington, District of Columbia. Son of Amos Galusha and Luella Bell (Merrill) Draper.
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Ernest Gallaudet Draper
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor of Arts, Amherst 1906. Master of Arts, 1936. Doctor of Laws, Gallaudet, 1951.
Career
Began as clerk, New York, 1906. President American Creosoting Company, 1912-1920. Treasurer Vice-President The Hills Brothers Company, packers Dromedary dates and other food products, 1920-1935.
Assistant secretary of Commerce, 1935-1938. Member Board governments, Federal Reserve System since 1938. Formerly vice president The Dromedary Company of California.
Director Scoville Canning Company Lieutenant senior grade, United States Naval Reserve Force, 1918-1919. Assistant navigator United States Ship Sierra, 1918.
Membership
Member Board governments, Federal Reserve System since 1938. Member of New York State Commision on Unemployment, 1930-1935. Member of New York State Advisory Committee on Minimum Wage.
Member National Labor Board, 1934. Member Business Advisory Council, Department of Commerce, 1935. Member executive commission on Commercial Policy, 1936-1938.
Member President’s Committee on Crop Insurance, 1936. Member of the board of directors, Children’s Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia. Member of the board of trustees Gallaudet College, Washington.
Member American Association for Labor Legislation (president 1930-1932), Merchants. Association, New York (commission on industrial relations 1932-1935), American Economics Association, Academy Political Science, Alpha Delta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa. Clubs: University. Amherst: Metropolitan (Washington).
Connections
Married Mary W. Childs, February 7, 1911.; married second, Theodora Trowbridge, December 4, 1926. Children: William Hamlin Childs (deceased), Doris Bartlett, Mary.
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Religion
Presbyterian