Leonard Dupee White (January 17, 1891 – February 23, 1958) was an American historian who specialized in

public administration Public Administration (a form of governance) or Public Policy and Administration (an academic discipline) is the implementation of public policy, administration of government establishment (public governance), management of non-profit est ...

in the

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. His technique was to study administration in the context of grouped U.S. presidential terms. A founder of the field, White worked at the

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after service in the administrations of

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Biography

White was born in

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, to John Sidney White and Bertha H. (Dupee) White. He received his

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from Dartmouth in 1914, followed by his

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in 1915, after which he taught there for a few years. He received his

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from the

in 1921. In 1934 he went to Washington to serve on the

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and Central Statistics Board. He died in

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, Illinois, in 1958. The last of White's four historical books subtitled ''A Study in Administrative History'' was ''The Republican Era: 1869–1901''. It was published by Macmillan in 1958, the year of his death, "with the assistance of Jean Schneider". Next year White posthumously and Schneider shared the 1959

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. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the American Society for Public Administration's Public Administration Review between 1940–1943.

Awards

* Guggenheim Fellow, 1927–1928 * 1948 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award, ''The Federalists: A Study in Administrative History'' * 1959

, ''The Republican Era: 1869–1901''"History"
The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-25.

Works

* "The Origin of Utility Commissions in Massachusetts", '' Journal of Political Economy'', March 1921; also distributed separately by

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– related to Ph.D. thesis, U. of Chicago, 1921 * ''Conditions of Municipal Employment in Chicago: A Study in Morale'' (1925) * ''Introduction to the Study of Public Administration'' (Prentice-Hall, 1926), renewed 1954 * ''The Frontiers of Public Administration'' (2 vols.) (1936) (with John Merriman Gaus and Marshall Edward Dimock) * ''Defense and War Administration, 1939–1942'' (1942) * ''The Federalists: A Study in Administrative History 1789–1801'' (MacMillan, 1948) * ''The Jeffersonians: A Study in Administrative History 1801–1829'' (MacMillan, 1951) * ''The Jacksonians: A Study in Administrative History 1829–1861'' (MacMillan, 1954) * ''The Republican Era, 1869–1901: A Study in Administrative History'' (MacMillan, 1958) * ''Leonard D. White and the Study of Public Administration'' (March 1965, Public Administration Review)www.citizenship-aei.org
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Guide to the Leonard D. White Papers 1913-2002
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