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1953-10-02

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Creel served as chairman of the United States Committee on Public Information.

From the description of Correspondence of George Creel [manuscript], 1917-1918. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647838807

Author, editor, and U.S. government official.

From the description of George Creel papers, 1857-1953 (bulk 1896-1953). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980042

Commissioner, Golden Gate International Exposition.

From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1940-[1950?]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122594964

American author and journalist; chairman, United States Committee on Public Information, 1917-1919; commissioner, Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939-1940.

From the description of George Creel miscellaneous papers, 1899-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868815

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1876, Dec. 1 Born, Lafayette County, Mo. 1899 1909 Editor, Kansas City Independent 1905 Appointed coal inspector, Kansas City, Mo. 1907 Published Quatrains of Christ (Kansas City, Mo.: Independent Press) 1909 1910 Editorial writer, Denver Post 1911 1913 Editorial writer, Rocky Mountain News 1912 Married Blanche Bates (died 1941) 1912 1913 Commissioner of police, Denver, Colo. 1914 Published with Edwin Markham and Ben B. Lindsey Children in Bondage (New York: Hearst's International Library Co.) 1916 Published Wilson and the Issues (New York: Century Co.) 1917 1919 Chairman, Committee on Public Information 1919 Published Ireland's Fight for Freedom, Setting forth the Highlights of Irish History (New York and London: Harper & Brothers) 1920 Published How We Advertised America (New York and London: Harper & Brothers) 1923 Published Uncle Henry (New York: Reynolds Publishing Co.) 1926 Published The People Next Door (New York: John Day Co.) 1927 Published Sons of the Eagle (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co.) 1928 Published Sam Houston, Colossus in Buckskin (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp.) 1931 Published Tom Paine-Liberty Bell (New York: Sears Publishing Co.) 1933 1934 Regional director for California, Nevada, and Utah, National Recovery Administration Chairman, San Francisco Regional Labor Board 1934 Defeated as candidate for Democratic Party nomination for governor of California 1935 Chairman, National Advisory Board, Works Progress Administration; adviser to Harry Hopkins 1937 1940 United States Commissioner, Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, Calif. 1940 Traveled to Mexico to help establish a Mexican Ministry of Public Information and Propaganda 1942 Supported Earl Warren for governor of California 1943 Married Alice May Rosseter (died 1948) 1944 Published War Criminals and Punishment (New York: R.M. McBride & Co.) 1947 Published Rebel at Large, Recollections of Fifty Crowded Years (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons) 1949 Published with Ross T. McIntyre White House Physician (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons) 1953, Oct. 2 Died, San Francisco, Calif. From the guide to the George Creel Papers, 1857-1953, (bulk 1896-1953), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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1876 December 1 Born, Lafayette County, Missouri 1899 1909 Editor, Kansas City Independent 1909 1910 Editor, Denver Post 1911 1913 Editor, Rocky Mountain News 1916 Author, Wilson and the Issues 1917 1919 Chairman, Committee on Public Information 1919 Author, Ireland's Fight For Freedom 1920 Author, How We Advertised America, and The War, The World and Wilson 1926 Author, The People Next Door 1927 Author, Sons of the Eagle 1928 Author, Sam Houston, Colossus in Buckskin 1932 Author, Tom Paine – Liberty Bell 1933 Chairman, San Francisco Regional Labor Board 1935 Chairman, National Advisory Board, Works Progress Administration 1939 U.S. Commissioner, Golden Gate International Exposition 1944 Author, War Criminals 1947 Author, Rebel at Large: Recollections of Fifty Crowded Years 1949 Author, Russia's Race for Asia 1953 October 3 Died, San Francisco From the guide to the George Creel Miscellaneous Papers, 1912-1972, (Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace)

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