Leonard D. White

Leonard Dupee White (17 January 1891 - 23 February 1958) was a historian of the field of public administration in the United States.^[1] His technique was to study administration in the context of grouped U.S. presidential periods. An important founder of the field, White worked at the University of Chicago after service in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

White was born in Acton, Massachusetts to John Sidney White and Bertha H. (Dupee) White. He received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth in 1914 and his master's from there in 1915, after which he taught at Dartmouth for a couple of years. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1921.

In 1934 he went to Washington to serve on the Civil Service Commission and Central Statistics Board.

Awards

• Guggenheim Fellow, 1927-28
• 1948 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book award for The Federalists: A Study in Administrative History^[2]

Selected publications

• The Federalists: A Study in Administrative History 1789-1801 MacMillan , 1948
• The Jeffersonians: A Study in Administrative History 1801-1829 MacMillan, 1951
• The Jacksonian Era: A Study in Administrative History 1829-1861 MacMillan,1954
• The Republican Era, 1869-1901: A Study in Administrative History MacMillan, 1958
• Introduction to the Study of Public Administration Prentice- Hall, 1926, renewed 1954

Notes

1. ^ Shafritz, Jay M. (2004) "White, Leonard D." The Dictionary of Public Policy and Administration Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, ISBN 0-8133-4260-0
2. ^ "Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award"

References

• Weber J. (1996) "Leonard Dupee White and Public Administration" Journal of Management History 2(2): pp. 41-64
• Roberts, Alasdair (2009) "The Path Not Taken: Leonard White and the Macrodynamics of Administrative Development." Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1322562