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Harry Lloyd Hopkins (August 17 1890 – 1946) was one of Franklin Roosevelt's closest advisors and one of the key architects of the New Deal. Hopkins, a native of Sioux City, Iowa and a 1912 graduate of Grinnell College, was the first chief of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and later the director of the Civil Works Administration, the Federal Surplus Relief Administration, and the Works Progress Administration. He also served as United States Secretary of Commerce from 1938 to 1940.
| Preceded by: Daniel C. Roper | Secretary of Commerce | Succeeded by: Jesse H. Jones |