Laurence Ilsley Hewes Jr. (1902- ) graduated from Dartmouth in 1924 and worked as an investment banker in San Francisco from 1925-1933. From 1935-1939 he served as assistant to the administrator of the Farm Security Administration and then was the regional director at San Francisco from 1939-1944. He was the west coast director of the American Council of Race Relations from 1944-1947 and from 1947-1949 he was a land reform advisor in Japan.
From 1950-1959 Hewes served with the Bureau of Reclamation in Denver and from 1959-1962 he served with the U.S. Outdoor Recreation Resources Commission and from 1963-1965 he was a rural development advisor for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in India. In 1963 he was a consultant with the World Bank and a fellow for the Study of Democratic Institutions in California from 1972-1973 and 1976-1977.
From the description of Papers, 1942-1974. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 28287046
