Talk:Walter Heller

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Biographies & Profiles Walter Heller Before joining President Kennedy's administration, Walter Heller served as a tax analyst in the U.S. Treasury department, where he helped design the withholding system for federal income taxes. When Heller was appointed Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors in 1961, he had worked to spark national economic growth--a significant goal of President Kennedy’s New Frontier. Mr. Heller expanded the role of his Council, testifying before Congress and speaking publicly on behalf of the administration. He also stayed on as President Johnson’s Chief Economic Advisor, devising the 1964 federal tax cut that stimulated a period of national prosperity. 1915 August 27, born, Buffalo, NY 1935 B.A., Oberlin College 1938 M.A., University of Wisconsin 1941 Ph. D., University of Wisconsin 1941-1942 Instructor, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1942-1946 Fiscal Economist, U.S. Treasury Department 1946-1950 Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 1947-1948 Chief of Internal Finance, U.S. Military Government in Germany 1950-1967 Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 1951 Member, Economic Cooperation Administration Mission on German Fiscal Problems 1955-1960 Fiscal Advisor to governor of Minnesota 1960 Tax Advisor to King Hussein and Royal Commission of Jordan 1961-1964 Chairman, President’s Council of Economic Advisors 1965-1969 Consultant, Executive Office of the President 1965-1969 Member, U.S. Treasury Committee on Internal Monetary Arrangements 1967 Regents’ Professor of Economics 1974 Member, Federal Energy Office advisory panel 1974-1977 Advisor to President Gerald Ford 1987 Died

Author

Savings in the Modern Economy (editor with Francis M. Boddy and Carl L. Nelson), 1953 State Income Tax Administration (with Clara Penniman), 1959 New Dimensions of Political Economy, 1966 Revenue-Sharing and the City (co-author), 1968 Perspectives on Economic Growth (editor), 1968 Monetary vs. Fiscal Policy: A Dialogue (with Milton Friedman), 1969 Economic Growth and the Environmental Quality: Collision or Co-Existence?, 1973

Source

The H. W. Wilson Company, 1961 Current Biography, and Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 1999

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