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Nov 20, 2023 · David E. Lilienthal was one of them. He spearheaded the Tennessee Valley Authority, served as first chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and tried his hand at international development. Once a titan in the public sphere, biographies of Lilienthal have gone out of print, as have his own published works.
David Eli Lilienthal (July 8, 1899 – January 15, 1981) was an American attorney and public administrator, best known for his Presidential Appointment to head Tennessee Valley Authority [1] and later the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). He had practiced public utility law and led the Wisconsin Public Utilities Commission. [2]
The Father of Public Power. Boyish in appearance but hardheaded and knowledgeable, David Lilienthal built the TVA power system according to one guiding principle: affordable power for everyone in the TVA region. When people met TVA’s three original directors, he was the one who looked out of place. Two of the triumvirate were white-haired ...
Dec 17, 2002 · This philosophy, refined and clearly articulated by David Lilienthal, one of the TVA's first directors, was the major reason for the institution's allure.
- David Ekbladh
- 2002
Jan 16, 1981 · David E. Lilienthal, former chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the first chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, died of a heart attack at the Sheraton Centre Hotel in New York...
David Lilienthal After years of battling with his more conservative colleagues, Lilienthal officially took charge of the TVA in 1941 and directed it through the war years. In 1946, he became the first chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission .
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led in its formative years between 1945–50 by the TVA’s erstwhile director, David Lilienthal. He was one of the few people qualified to lead such an unprecedented agency. During WWII the secret sites of the Manhattan Project had co-opted the TVA in the South and the Hanford
