Works Progress Administration begins operating 90 years ago today (May 6 1935)

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(Monday, May 6, 1935; during the Great Depression) — The Works Progress Administration began operating under an executive order signed today by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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1985: Ronald Reagan-George H.W. Bush
1975: #Gerald Ford-@Nelson Rockefeller
1965: Lyndon B. Johnson-Hubert Humphrey
1955: Dwight D. Eisenhower-Richard Nixon
1945: >Harry S. Truman-(vacant)
1935: Franklin D. Roosevelt-John N. Garner
1925: Calvin Coolidge-Charles G. Dawes
1915: Woodrow Wilson-Thomas R. Marshall
1905: Theodore Roosevelt-Charles Fairbanks
1895: Grover Cleveland-Adlai Stevenson I
1885: Grover Cleveland-Thomas Hendricks
1875: Ulysses S. Grant-Henry Wilson
1865: >Andrew Johnson-(vacant)
1855: Franklin Pierce-(vacant)
1845: *James K. Polk-George M. Dallas
1835: *Andrew Jackson-Martin Van Buren
1825: John Quincy Adams-John C. Calhoun
1815: *James Madison-(vacant)
1805: *Thomas Jefferson-George Clinton
1795: *George Washington-John Adams
> Ascended to presidency intra-term upon death or resignation of predecessor and in Ford’s case #, after being appointed VP under 25th Amendment
@ Appointed VP under the 25th Amendment
* Owned slaves while in office

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