Bennet, Douglas Joseph

Douglas Joseph Bennet was born in Wilmington, Delaware on August 22, 1911. After graduating from Wesleyan University in 1933 he went to work in advertising and sales promotion. He moved to Hartford, Connecticut in April, 1942 to set up the gasoline rationing program for Connecticut. In the fall of 1943 he joined Chester Bowles at the Office of Price Administration in Washington as chief of the Office of Program Planning, Department of Information. He returned to Lyme, Connecticut and remained a lifelong political adviser and personal friend of Bowles and his family.

From the description of Douglas Joseph Bennet papers, 1941-1977 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702170364

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