1. Louis Brownlow was an American author, political scientist, and consultant in the area of public administration.
24 Facts About Louis Brownlow
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Louis Brownlow was born in Buffalo, Missouri, in August 1879.
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Louis Brownlow's parents were Robert Sims and Ruth Amis Brownlow.
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Louis Brownlow's father had been a soldier in the Confederate States Army, serving in the Tennessee, Missouri, and Arkansas area, and had been wounded in the hip by a minie ball.
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Louis Brownlow was frequently ill as a child and educated at home He was unable to attend college due to his family's poverty, but read books extensively.
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In 1900, Brownlow was hired by the Nashville Banner, and over the next several years wrote for the Louisville Courier-Journal, Louisville Times, and several other newspapers in Tennessee as well.
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Louis Brownlow worked for the Haskin Syndicate as a political writer and later as a correspondent in Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East from 1906 to 1915.
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Louis Brownlow ghost-wrote Haskin's 1911 book The American Government, which was an influential treatise on Progressive ideas about public administration.
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Louis Brownlow married the former Elizabeth Sims in December 1909.
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Louis Brownlow was a member of the Democratic Party and a Methodist, and belonged to the Cosmos Club and National Press Club.
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Louis Brownlow came to Washington, DC, as a reporter for two Tennessee newspapers, and made the acquaintance of President Theodore Roosevelt.
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Louis Brownlow caught the attention of President Woodrow Wilson in 1914 after being one of the few newspaper reporters to correctly predict that the German Empire would go to war with Serbia over the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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Louis Brownlow helped guide the city through the 1918 flu pandemic, closing schools and businesses and banning all public gatherings.
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Louis Brownlow served on the District of Columbia Public Utilities Commission and the District Zoning Commission from 1917 to 1919.
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Louis Brownlow was City Manager of Petersburg, Virginia, from 1920 to 1923; City Manager of Knoxville, Tennessee, from 1924 to 1926; and City Manager of Radburn, New Jersey, from 1927 to 1931.
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Louis Brownlow briefly worked for the United States Daily newspaper in 1927.
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Louis Brownlow was a consultant to the City Housing Corporation in New York City from 1928 to 1931 and was elected a director of the corporation in 1931.
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Louis Brownlow began teaching political science at the University of Chicago in 1931, and later that year was appointed director of the Public Administration Clearing House at the university.
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Louis Brownlow became chairman of the Committee for Public Administration of the Social Science Research Council in 1933, where he worked to bridge the gap between academics and practitioners.
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Louis Brownlow was chairman of the National Institute of Public Affairs from 1934 to 1949.
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Louis Brownlow received an honorary Doctor of Law degree from American University in 1938.
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Louis Brownlow helped co-found the American Society for Public Administration in 1940, serving in various executive and advisory capacities to it until 1945.
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Louis Brownlow retired from the University of Chicago in 1949 and served as a visiting professor at the University of Washington in 1957 and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse in 1958 and 1959.
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Louis Brownlow died in Arlington, Virginia, in September 1963 after delivering a speech at the Army Navy Country Club.