Tugwell, Rexford Guy (1891–1979)

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Tugwell, Rexford Guy (1891–1979)

Rexford Guy Tugwell (b. 10 July 1891; d. 21 July 1979), governor of Puerto Rico (1941–1946). In 1932, Tugwell became one of the original members of Franklin Roosevelt's brain trust. He later served as the assistant secretary of agriculture, the director of the Resettlement Administration, chairman of the city planning commission of New York, and chancellor at the University of Puerto Rico. Republicans and big sugar businesses opposed his appointment to the governorship.

Tugwell favored home rule for Puerto Rico and continued economic development through such institutions as the Development Company, the Development Bank, and the Water Resources Authority. He served as the last federally appointed governor of Puerto Rico.

See alsoPuerto Rico .

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Rexford G. Tugwell, The Stricken Land: The Story of Puerto Rico (1947).

Enrique Lugo-Silva, The Tugwell Administration in Puerto Rico, 1941–1946 (1955).

Charles T. Goodsell, Administration of a Revolution: Executive Reform in Puerto Rico Under Governor Tugwell, 1941–1946 (1965).

Additional Bibliography

Barreto Velázquez, Norberto. Rexford G. Tugwell el último de los tutores. San Juan: Ediciones Huracan, 2004.

Namorato, Michael V. Rexford G. Tugwell: A Biography. New York: Praeger, 1988.

                              Christopher T. Bowen

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