WILBUR J.
COHEN was active in many areas of public welfare throughout
his entire career. He moved to Washington after graduating from
the University of Wisconsin in 1934, and became Research Assistant
to Executive Director Witte of President Roosevelt's cabinet-level
Committee on Economic Security. This Committee drafted the original
Social Security Act. In 1935 he was a member of the Committee on
Public Administration of the Social Science Research Council. He
headed SSA's Office of Research and Statistics. Later in his career,
he served as Professor of Public Welfare Administration and as Dean
of the School of Education at the University of Michigan; and as
Assistant Secretary for Legislation, Under-Secretary, and Secretary
of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. |