Background
BRANDON, Rodney Howe was born on September 21, 1881 in Monroe Company, Indiana, United States. Son of Galbraith Lynn and Narcissa Lee (Smith) Brandon.
director State Department of Public Welfare
BRANDON, Rodney Howe was born on September 21, 1881 in Monroe Company, Indiana, United States. Son of Galbraith Lynn and Narcissa Lee (Smith) Brandon.
Student Indiana U., 3 years. Doctor of Laws, MacMurray Lane, December 6, 1909.
Clerk and auditor American Telephone & Telegraph Company, New York, 1900-1902. One of the organizers, 1906, of the Loyal Order of Moose, in which served an official, 1906-1929. Supervised construction of Mooseheart, 1913.
Secretary Mooseheart Governors. Grand regent Mooseheart Legion. Established Moosehaven (Florida), 1922, Pilgrim governor of the Loyal Order of Moose, from 1947.
An organizer of Progressive Party in Indiana, 1912. Moved to Illinois, 1913. Delegate Illinois Constitutional Convention, 1919 (Chairman of Commission on education and editor of Convention Proceedings).
Secretary Republican State Central Committee, Illinois, 1928-1930. Director Department of Public Welfare, Illinois, 1929-1933 and 1941-1945. Member Board of Public Welfare Commissioners, State of Illinois, 1933-1940.
Special investigator for United States Government of child welfare conditions in Europe, 1926. Lecturer in criminology, social hygiene and medical jurisprudence, College of Medicine, University of Illinois from 1933. Department commander Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1938-1939.
Member Board of Public Welfare Commissioners, State of Illinois, 1933-1940. Special investigator for United States Government of child welfare conditions in Europe, 1926.; Member Disciples of Christ.
Mason. Knights of Pythias.
Spouse Harriette Lane, December 6, 1909, Anderson, Indiana.