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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Johnson, David B. |
| Title, Analytic | The "Government Man": Edwin E. Witte of the University of Wisconsin |
| Journal Title | Wisconsin Magazine of History |
| Date of Publication | 1998 |
| Volume ID | 82 |
| Issue ID | 1 |
| Location in Work | 32-51 |
| ISSN | http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/wmh/id/48768 |
| Abstract | This article is an overview of Edwin E. Witte's career as a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin from 1933 to 1957, noting his role in the development of the Social Security Act of 1935. Witte was born in 1887 on a farm in the town of Ebenezer, about four miles south of Watertown, in Jefferson County, Wisconsin. He was a third-generation German-American, both of whose grandfathers had left Prussia in the 1850's. |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals [title, date] |
| MKI Terms | German Americans -- Wisconsin/ Teaching/ Biographies/ Political activity |