Paul H. Appleby

Paul Henson Appleby (September 13, 1891-1963) was an important theorist of public administration in democracies.

According to his biographical sketch associated with his collected papers [http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/findaids/apap112.htm] at the University at Albany, Appleby was born in Greene County, Missourito Andrew B. and Mary (Johnson) Appleby. He earned his A.B. from Grinnell College in 1913. He married Ruth Meyer on October 4, 1916. The couple had three children, Margaret Finley, Mary Ellen Sarbaugh, and L. Tom. He began his career as a newspaper publisher in Montana, Minnesota, and Iowa from 1914 through 1920. He was the editor of "Iowa Magazine" in Waterloo, Iowa from 1920-1924 and an editorial writer at the Des Moines Register and Tribune from 1924 until 1928. The family moved to Virginia in 1928 where Appleby again worked as a newspaper publisher until accepting a position with the U.S. government. He served as the Executive Assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture from 1933 through 1940 and the Under Secretary of Agriculture from 1940 until 1944 in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration. He was Assistant Director of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget from 1944 through 1947 in the Truman Administration.

In 1947, Appleby became the Dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, of Syracuse University, where he became a noted author of works in the field of public administration.he worked in India and wrote a fine reports on Indian Public Administration