Background
Hewes, Laurence Ilsley was born on April 17, 1902 in Kingston, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Laurence Ilsley and Agnes Bancroft (Danforth) Hewes.
( This book relates the story of the Japanese Land Reform...)
This book relates the story of the Japanese Land Reform Program (1945-51) against a background of the history and sociology of agrarian Japan.
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Hewes, Laurence Ilsley was born on April 17, 1902 in Kingston, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Laurence Ilsley and Agnes Bancroft (Danforth) Hewes.
Bachelor of Science, Dartmouth College, 1924; Doctor of Philosophy, George Washington University, 1946; Master of Public Administration, Harvard University, 1956.
Engaged in investment banking, San Francisco, 1925-1933;
assistant to undersecretary agriculture, 1935;
assistant to administrator, Farm Security Administration, 1935-1939;
regional director, Farm Security Administration, San Francisco, 1939-1944;
West Coast director, American Council Race Relations, San Francisco, 1944-1947;
land reform adviser, Headquarters Supreme Command Allies Pacific, Tokyo, Japan, 1947-1949;
chief land settlement and agricultural economist, Bureau Reclamation, Denver, 1950-1959;
chief forecasts and economics, United States Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission, 1959-1962;
assistant to administrator, Office Rural Areas Development, USDA, 1962-1963;
rural development adviser, Agency for International Development mission to India, New Delhi, 1963-1965;
chief natural resources conservation, Rural Community Development Service, USDA, Washington, 1965-1968. Senior consultant United Nations Development Program, World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization (of the United Nations), with assignment, Ethiopia, Panama, India, Pakistan, Ceylon, South Vietnam, Mexico, British Honduras, Nicaragua, Tanzania, from 1968. Visiting fellow Center for Study Democratic Institutions, Santa Barbara, California, 1972, 73, associate, 1976-1977.
Member of the United States Inter Agency Committee Post Defense Planning, 1939-1941, Department Agriculture, War Board California and Arizona, 1941-1943. United States representative Mexican Labor Transportation Negotiations, 1942-1943. Executive secretary land and water policy committee Department Agriculture, 1965-1968.
( This book relates the story of the Japanese Land Reform...)
Member Artus, Sigma Nu.
Married Patricia Esther Jackson, January 29, 1932 (deceased 1976). 1 son, Laurence Ilsley. Married Martha Odle Overholser, August, 1979.