Harry A. Millis
Harry Alvin Millis was an American civil servant, economist, and educator and who was prominent in the first four decades of the 20th century. He was a prominent educator, and his writings on labor relations were described at his death by several prominent economists as landmarks. Millis is best known for serving on the first National Labor Relations Board, an executivebranch agency which had no statutory authority. He was also the second chairman of the second National Labor Relations Board, where he initiated a number of procedural improvements and helped stabilize the Boards enforcement of American labor law.
Millis was born in May 1873 in Paoli, Indiana. He attended and graduated from Paoli High School. He was heavily involved in athletics in his youth. He enrolled at Indiana University, receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1895 and his Master of Arts in finance in 1896. He was the first graduate student of John R. Commons, the renowned institutional economist. Millis entered the sociology program at the University of Chicago in 1896 but in 1898 he switched to the economics program and received his Ph.D. in economics in 1899.
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