American historian (1891–1958)
Leonard Dupee White (January 17, 1891 – February 23, 1958) was an American historian who specialized inpublic administration in theUnited States .[ 1] U.S. presidential terms . A founder of the field, White worked at theUniversity of Chicago after service in the administrations ofFranklin D. Roosevelt .
White was born inActon, Massachusetts , to John Sidney White and Bertha H. (Dupee) White. He received hisbachelor's degree fromDartmouth in 1914, followed by hismaster's in 1915, after which he taught there for a few years. He received hisdoctorate from theUniversity of Chicago in 1921.
In 1934 he went to Washington to serve on theU.S. Civil Service Commission and Central Statistics Board. He died inChicago , Illinois, in 1958.
The last of White's four historical books subtitledA Study in Administrative History wasThe Republican Era: 1869–1901 . It was published by Macmillan in 1958, the year of his death, "with the assistance ofJean Schneider ". Next year White posthumously and Schneider shared the 1959Pulitzer Prize for History .[ 2]
He was the founding editor-in-chief of theAmerican Society for Public Administration's Public Administration Review between 1940–1943.[ 3]
Guggenheim Fellow, 1927–1928 1948 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award,The Federalists: A Study in Administrative History [ 4] 1959Pulitzer Prize for History ,The Republican Era: 1869–1901 [ 2] "The Origin of Utility Commissions in Massachusetts",Journal of Political Economy University of Chicago Press – related to Ph.D. thesis, U. of Chicago, 1921[ 5] Conditions of Municipal Employment in Chicago: A Study in Morale (1925)[ 6] Introduction to the Study of Public Administration (Prentice-Hall, 1926), renewed 1954[ 7] The Frontiers of Public Administration (2 vols.) (1936) (withJohn Merriman Gaus andMarshall Edward Dimock )[ 8] Defense and War Administration, 1939–1942 (1942)[ 9] The Federalists: A Study in Administrative History 1789–1801 (MacMillan, 1948)[ 10] The Jeffersonians: A Study in Administrative History 1801–1829 (MacMillan, 1951)[ 11] The Jacksonians: A Study in Administrative History 1829–1861 (MacMillan, 1954)[ 12] The Republican Era, 1869–1901: A Study in Administrative History (MacMillan, 1958)[ 13] Leonard D. White and the Study of Public Administration (March 1965, Public Administration Review)[ 14] ^ Shafritz, Jay M. (2004) "White, Leonard D."The Dictionary of Public Policy and Administration Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado,ISBN 978-0-8133-4260-3 ^a b "History" . The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-25.^ Weber, Jeffrey A. (1996). "Leonard Dupee White and public administration".Journal of Management History .2 (2): 44.doi :10.1108/13552529610106860 .ISSN 1355-252X . ^ " . Archived fromthe original (PDF) on 2015-05-18. Retrieved2009-05-02 .^ "The origin of utility commissions in Massachusetts" . Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2013-11-25.^ White, Leonard Dupee (1925-01-01).Conditions of municipal employment in Chicago: A study in morale ^ White, Leonard Dupee (1926-01-01).Introduction to the Study of Public Administration ^ Gaus, John Merriman; White, Leonard Dupee; Dimock, Marshall Edward (1936-01-01).The Frontiers of Public Administration ^ White, Leonard Dupee (1942-01-01).Defense and war administration, 1939–1942 ^ White, Leonard Dupee (1948-01-01).The Federalists: a study in administrative history ^ White, Leonard Dupee (1951-01-01).The Jeffersonians: A Study in Administrative History, 1801–1829 ^ White, Leonard Dupee (1954-01-01).The Jacksonians: A Study in Administrative History, 1829–1861 ^ White, Leonard Dupee (1958-01-01).The Republican Era: 1869–1901; a Study in Administrative History ^ www.citizenship-aei.org Citations
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