William F. Willoughby Explained
William Franklin Willoughby (born 1867 in Alexandria, Virginia – died 1960) was an author of public administration texts including works on budgeting. He often worked with his twin brother, Westel W. Willoughby.
He graduated from Johns Hopkins University, 1885
Family
Wife: Bessie Talbot (Appleby) WilloughbySiblings: brother, Westel Woodbury Willoughby (1867–1945); sister, Alice Estelle Willoughby
Biography
He was born on 20 July 1867 in Alexandria, Virginia to Westel Willoughby and his wife Jennie.
Leadership Positions
- Statistical expert for U.S. Department of Labor, 1885[1]
- Member of International Jury of Awards, Paris Exposition of 1900[1]
- Instructor of economics at Harvard, 1901[1]
- First Director of Brookings Institution
- Treasurer, secretary, and president of Executive Council of Puerto Rico of the Island of Puerto Rico, appointed Nov. 9 1901 by President Theodore Roosevelt, 1901–1909[1] [2]
- Assistant director of U.S. Census, 1910[1]
- Member of U.S. Commission of Economy and Efficiency in Government[1]
- McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton, 1912[1]
- Deputy legal advisor to president of China,Yuan Shikai, 1914–1916[1] [3]
- Director of the Institute for Government Research, 1916–1932[1]
- President of the American Political Science Association, 1931–1932
- Consultant to the Library of Congress, 1940–1944[1]
Publications
- Child Labor. By William F. Willoughby, A.B., and Miss Clare de Graffenried. Publications of the American Economic Association.[4]
- Workingmen's Insurance. Crowell and Company. 1898.[5] [6]
- The System of Financial Administration of Great Britain. A. Report by William F. Willoughby, Westel W. Willoughby, and Samuel Mccdne Lindsay. With- an Introduction by A. Laurence Lowell. (New York.: Appleton and Co. for the Institute of Government Research. 1917.)[7]
- The Movement for Budgetary Reform in the States, D. Appleton and Co. NY. 1918
- The Government of Modern States, The Century Co., 1919
- Government Organization in War Time and After: A Survey of the Federal Civil Agencies Created for the Prosecution of the War, 1919
- The National Budget System, With Suggestions for Its Improvement, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1927
- Principles of judicial administration. Brooking Institution, 1929.[8]
- Financial Condition and Operations of the National Government 1921–1930, The Brookings Institution, 1931
Notes and References
- Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, The College of William and Mary in Virginia http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/findingaids/72_W66_Willoughby__William.pdf
- https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E0DE7DC1638E033A25753C1A9679D946097D6CF The New York Times, 10 Nov. 1901
- Book: Ramsey, Elizabeth Courtenay . William F Willoughby, a Progressive in China, 1914-1916 . 1976 . College of William & Mary - Arts & Sciences.
- Bemis . Edward W. . 1891-03-01 . Child Labor, by William F. Willoughby, Clare de Graffenried . Political Science Quarterly . 6 . 1 . 188–189 . 10.2307/2139250 . 2139250 . 0032-3195.
- Cummings . Edward . 1898 . Workingmen's Insurance . William Franklin Willoughby . Journal of Political Economy . en . 6 . 4 . 556–560 . 10.1086/250539 . 0022-3808.
- McLean . Francis H. . 1898 . Review of Workingmen's Insurance . The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science . 12 . 107–111 . 10.1177/000271629801200312 . 1009585 . 0002-7162.
- Higgs . Henry . 1917 . Review of The System of Financial Administration of Great Britain.; The National Budget System and American Finance.; The Principles and Practice of the System of Control over Parliamentary Grants. . The Economic Journal . 27 . 108 . 523–527 . 10.2307/2222244 . 2222244 . 0013-0133.
- Moley . Raymond . 1930 . Principles of judicial administration. by William F. Willoughby. Washington: The brookings institute, 1929. 390 pp. . National Municipal Review . en . 19 . 2 . 100–101 . 10.1002/ncr.4110190208 . 0190-3799.
