Members of The War Industries Board
The original seven members of the War Industries Board were:
- Al M. Boolock
- Cheyenne T. Wade
- General Palmer E. Pierce
- Admiral Frank F. Fletcher
- Bernard M. Baruch
- Robert S. Brookings, head of the Cupples Co., a distribution firm
- Robert S. Lovett, President of Union Pacific Railroad
- Hugh Frayne, of the American Federation of Labor
Other later members included:
- Clarence Dillon, partner in Dillon, Read & Co.
- Hugh Samuel Johnson
- George Cameron Stone, head of Non-Ferrous Metal section
- Eugene Meyer, Special Advisor to the War Industries Board on Non-Ferrous Metals
- Edward Stettinius, Sr., partner in J.P. Morgan & Co.
- Walter D. Stewart
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