Goldy, Daniel L. (Daniel Louis), 1915-

Daniel Louis Goldy was born in 1915 in Butler, New Jersey. He received his A.B. in 1936 A.B. and completed work for his M.A. the same year at the University of Wisconsin. From 1936 to 1937 he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, and was an apprentice to the Director and Consultant of the American Public Welfare Association. From 1937 to 1941 he served as the Executive Assistant and Assistant Commissioner of the Division of Placement and Unemployment Compensation at the Illinois Department of Labor. From 1941 to 1942 he was the Assistant Regional Director for Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky at the Office of Defense, Health and Welfare, and From 1942 to 1943 he was the Assistant Regional Director for Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky, War Manpower Commission. From 1943 to 1946 Goldy served in the U.S. Navy and was assigned to offices overseeing war production and civilian personnel and industrial relations programs. From 1946 to 1947, he was a Special Assistant to the Director of the United States Employment Service. From 1947 to 1949 he was the Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Interior (1947-48) and Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Interior (1948-49), supervising the activities of the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Mines, the Geological Survey, and the National Park Service. From 1949 to 1951 he was the Pacific Northwest Regional Administrator of the Bureau of Land Management in the Department of the Interior. From 1951 to 1952 he was the Deputy Director of the Labor Division for Europe at the Economic Cooperation Administration. From 1952 to 1958 he was the Regional Director for the Pacific Northwest Region, Bureau of Employment Security in the Department of Labor. From 1955 to 1959 he was a general partner with Mountain Fir Lumber Company in Oregon. From 1958 to 1959 he was the Regional Director for the region including New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands in the Bureau of Employment Security at the Department of Labor. In 1959 Gold became the Assistant Commissioner for Employment and Manpower in the New Jersey Department of Labor and Industry, and a member of the Migrant Labor Board. From 1959 to 1961 he served as Vice President of the Pacific Northern Lumber Co. in Alaska and Oregon. In 1961, Goldy became the Deputy Administrator for the Area Redevelopment Administration in the Department of Commerce. From 1962 to 1963 he was the Administrator of the Business and Defense Services Administration in the Department of Commerce, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Business Domestic and International. From 1964 to 1965 he was the President''s National Export Expansion Coordinator and Executive Director of the Cabinet Committee on Export Expansion. From 1965 to 1968 he served as Vice President of the International Systems and Controls Corporation, and as the President of the ISC World Trade Corp. From 1969 to 1976 Goldy was the President and Director of the International Systems and Controls Corporation and the President of the Investors Counsel of Capital Shares, Inc. From 1971 to 1976 he was the Director, Regional Vice Chairman, and Chairman of the International Committee, and Chairman of the Task Force on World Shortages, and other offices at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. From 1971 to 1977 he was a member of the Advisory Council to the U.S. Cabinet Committee on Japan-U.S. Economic Relations. From 1972 to 1977 he served as the Director of Otis Elevator Company. From 1974 to 1977 he was a member of the European Community-U.S. Businessman''s Council. In 1975 he was a member of the President''s Advisory Council on Trade Negotiations. From 1976 to 1979 he was the Director of the Oregon Department of Economic Development. He worked as a Consulting Economist from 1979 to end of his career. Goldy died on April 19, 2001.

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Born in 1915 in Butler, New Jersey, Daniel Louis Goldy attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he graduated with honors in economics in 1936. He then went on the University of Chicago for graduate school. He was a guest lecturer at Northwestern University Graduate School before serving in the United States Navy from 1943-1946 where he was assigned to offices overseeing war production and civilian personnel and industrial relations programs.

Goldy served as an economist under three U.S. Presidents (Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson) and governors of four states on both coasts. He held positions in four departments of federal government – Labor, Commerce, Interior and the Executive Office. He was proudest of his achievements in the public sector, but he secured his independence and influence as a successful business executive, investor and consultant. In his words, "I had to learn what it was that motivated private people to invest their money … how they could accomplish public purpose at the same time that they were accomplishing their private mission."

Goldy tackled labor and trade issues on four continents, yet he left his deepest tracks in the timberlands of the Northwest. Audacious forest management policies that he initiated as a young, mid-level bureaucrat assigned oversight of O and C Railway lands change the rules for government, industry and labor. Although he was a life-long progressive Democrat and passionate environmentalist, his strong held views linking protection of job to management of natural resources alienated many conservationists and liberal activists, while bringing to his side key Republican legislators and business leaders. Goldy passed away at the age of 85 in Portland, Oregon, in 2001.

For an extensive list of positions held by Goldy, see the Daniel L. Goldy Papers finding aid at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, www.trumanlibrary.org/hstpaper/goldy.htm

Text adapted from biographical note in his memoirs, "Convictions, Controversy and Unintended Consequences."