Constellation Similarity Assertions

When the federal government set up its emergency relief program in 1933, Robert H. Hinckley had served on Governor George H. Dern's Voluntary Relief Committee from 1931 and had been appointed in 1933 by Governor Henry H. Blood as director of the state emergency relief program enacted by a special session of the legislature of that year. The responsibility of supervising the expenditure of relief funds from their respective states as well as large sums of money provided by the federal government fell on the state directors. Within a few months after Mr. Hinckley took the job of distributing federal funds the success of his administration attracted attention in Washington, D. C., and in September 1934 he was appointed by Harry L. Hopkins to serve as assistant administrator of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and continued as field representative of eleven western states, and Hawaii and Alaska, a position in which he served until 1938. His work in the state and national relief programs launched a long career of government service.

Robert H. Hinckley was born in Fillmore, Utah, June 8, 1891, the son of Edwin S. and Addie Henry Hinckley. His father was professor of geology and chemistry at Brigham Young University from 1895-1915 and served in other positions at that institution during his lifetime. It was in this college atmosphere that Robert H. Hinckley grew up and was educated, receiving his early education at the Brigham Young Training School. Upon graduating from Brigham Young High School in 1910, he served as a missionary in Germany for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He completed his college work at Brigham Young University in 1916, with a B. A. degree.

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