Jump, William Ashby.

William Ashby Jump (1891-1949) began his career with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1907 as a messenger boy for the Bureau of Animal Industry and progressed through various administration positions within the Bureau of Markets and the Division of Publications. He soon became the Chief Administrative Officer to the Secretary of Agriculture (1921-1924) the assistant Director of the office of Personal and Business Administration and Budget Officer for the Department (1925-1934), and the Director of Finance in the Office of Budget and Finance (1934-1949) Jump recognized as an outstanding authority on budgetary and financial administration. His early realization that budgeting was a basic part of program development and operation did much to make the concept of budgeting the vital management force it is today.