Grosvenor B. Clarkson (September 13, 1882 – January 23, 1937) was an author, publicist,[1] and Director of the Council of National Defense during World War I.
Council of National Defense, Clarkson on the most-left
Clarkson worked in New Mexico for the U.S. Department of the Interior and later for the United States Naval Consulting Board.[3] Afterwards, he was recruited for the Council of National Defense,[4] where he succeeded Walter S. Gifford as Director.[5][6] He served as director from December 1918 to March 1920.[7]
After the war, he published a detailed account of his time as Director of Industrial America in World War.[8]
He was the author of two books:
An Analysis of the High Cost of Living Problem, as Director; Council of National Defense, (1919)
Industrial America in the World War; the strategy behind the line, 1917-1918, (1923)
Personal life and death
Clarkson died on January 23, 1937, in New York City.[7][9]
References
^The Home Front Encyclopedia: United States, Britain, and Canada in World Wars I and II, Volume 1
^Clarkson, James Sullivan
^Iron Age, Volume 112
^The American Review of Reviews, Volume 63
^HEADS DEFENSE COUNCIL.; Grosvenor B. Clarkson Succeeds W. S. Gifford as Director., The New York Times