Early Life
Born in small-town Indiana, Mellett claimed his interest in public affairs came from holding a torch in rallies for rivals Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison since, as he wrote, "a boy could keep the torch if he was thoughtful enough to drop out of the parade before it reached the finish line" He became a journalist, covering local and then national and international affairs, editing a paper in Seattle and then Washington DC for the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Chain. As editor at the Washington Daily News he clashed with the chain's management over FDR's court-packing plan; immediately upon his resignation in 1937, FDR telephoned him to recruit his services. It wasn't until 1938 that Mellet took his first government job, as head of the National Emergency Council.
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