| LC control no. | n 50023552 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes), 1870-1965 |
| Variant(s) | Baruch, Bernard Mannes, 1870-1965 |
| Birth date | 1870-08-19 |
| Death date | 1965-06-20 |
| Place of birth | Camden (S.C.) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Affiliation | United States. National Defense Advisory Commission United States. War Industries Board Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920) United States. National Recovery Administration United States. Office of War Mobilization United Nations. Atomic Energy Commission |
| Profession or occupation | Capitalists and financiers Political consultants |
| Found in | United States atomic energy proposals: statement of the United States policy on control of atomic energy as presented by Bernard M. Baruch, esq., to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission June 14, 1946, 1946 Freedom for man---a world safe for mankind, 1955 title page (Bernard M. Baruch) Bernard M. Baruch: the adventures of a Wall Street legend, 1983 Wikipedia, July 15, 2013 (Bernard Baruch; Bernard Mannes Baruch; born August 19, 1870 in Camden, South Carolina; American financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant; after his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters and became a philanthropist; he graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1889; he became a broker and then a partner in A. A. Housman & Company; by 1903 Baruch had his own brokerage firm and gained the reputation of "The Lone Wolf of Wall Street" because of his refusal to join any financial house; by 1910, he had become one of Wall Street's best-known financiers; in 1916, Baruch left Wall Street to advise president Woodrow Wilson on national defense and terms of peace; he served on the Advisory Commission to the Council of National Defense and, in 1918, became the chairman of the War Industries Board; with his leadership, this body successfully managed the US's economic mobilization during World War I; in 1919, Wilson asked Baruch to serve as a staff member at the Paris Peace Conference; during President Roosevelt's New Deal program, Baruch was a member of the Brain Trust and helped form the National Recovery Administration (NRA); he was also a major contributor to Eleanor Roosevelt's controversial initiative to build a resettlement community for unemployed mining families in Arthurdale, West Virginia; when the United States entered World War II, President Roosevelt appointed Baruch as special adviser to the director of the Office of War Mobilization; in 1946 President Harry S. Truman appointed Baruch as the United States representative to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission; Baruch resigned from the commission in 1947; he continued to advise on international affairs until his death on June 20, 1965 in New York City) |
| Associated language | eng |
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