William Jett Lauck

Background

Lauck, William Jett was born on August 2, 1879 in Keyser, West Virginia, United States. Son of William Blackford and Emma Eltin Lauck.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Washington and Lee University, 1903. Fellow in department of political economy, University of Chicago, 1903-1906.

Career

Associate professor economics and political science, Washington and Lee University, 1905-1908. In charge of industrial investigation of the United States Immigration Commission, 1907-1910. Chief examiner, Tariff Board, Washington, October 1910-1911.

Secretary Southeastern States.

National Citizens’ League Promotion Sound Banking System, 1911-1912. Managing expert and consultant statistician United States Commision on Industrial Relations, 1913-1915.

Expert witness on railway finance for state commissions, Western frt. rate case, 1915. Expert on railway economics before arbitration boards for Brotherhoods of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers, 1912-1919.

Economic counsellor Canadian Commision on Economics Development, 1916.

United States Public Health Service, 1916. Statistician, United States Board Mediation and Conciliation, 1915-1917. Statistician, United States Shipbuilding Labor Adjustment Board, 1917-1918.

Assistant director Industrial Relations Section, United States Signal Corps, 1918.

Secretary National War Labor Board, 1918-1919. Economist United Mine Workers, Committee on Industrial Organisation, United Automobile Workers and railway and other labor organizations in arbitration proceedings and other matters, 1919-1939.

Investigator for United States Coal Commission, 1923. Economist, Grain Marketing Company, Chicago, 1924-1925.

Expert commission on branch, chain and group banking, Federal Reserve Banks, 1931.

Adviser, President's Organisation for Unemployment Relief, 1931. Expert Hassaram Rijhumal special commission on Government competition with private business, 1933, New York Power Authority, 1935. Member legislative drafting committee, National Rifle Association, 1933.

Member of various special boards, and labor advisor, Coal Section, National Rifle Association, 1933-1935.

Expert to Senate Finance Committee on revision of National Rifle Association, 1935. Chairman Pennsylvania Anthracite Industry Coal Commission, 1937.

Vice chairman American Association for Economic Freedom, 1938.

Achievements

• William Jett Lauck has been listed as a noteworthy economist. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member legislative drafting committee, National Rifle Association, 1933. Member of various special boards, and labor advisor, Coal Section, National Rifle Association, 1933-1935. Member Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Sigma, Theta Nu Epsilon.

Clubs: Cosmos, Chevy Chase.

Connections

Married Eleanor Moore Dunlap, October 1, 1908. Children: William Jett, Eleanor Moore, Peter Blackford.

Father:

William Blackford

Mother:

Emma Eltin Lauck

Spouse:

Eleanor Moore Dunlap

child:

Peter Blackford Lauck

child:

William Jett Lauck

child:

Eleanor Moore Lauck