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Biography of David Eli Lilienthal
Name: David Eli Lilienthal
Birth Date: July 8, 1899
Death Date: January 14, 1981
Place of Birth: Morton, Indiana, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: public administrator
David Eli Lilienthal
David Eli Lilienthal (1899-1981), American public administrator, was director of the Tennessee Valley Authority in its formative period and then became the first chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Steven Neuse in David E. Lilienthal, described him as, "one of the century's most noteworthy public figures."David E. Lilienthal was born in Morton, Indiana, on July 8, 1899. His parents, Leo and Minnie (Rosenak) Lilienthal were Czechoslovakian immigrants. His father, a storekeeper, moved his family from town to town across the Midwest. Lilienthal graduated from high school in Michigan City, Indiana. He received his bachelor's degree in 1920 from De Pauw University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Not only an intellectual, he also obtained a reputation as a light-heavyweight boxer. Three years later, Lilienthal earned a law degree from Harvard Law School and married Helen Marian Lamb. They later became the parents of a daughter, Nancy Alice, and a son, David …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…his wife Helen: "Dave was one of the remarkable men of the century--remarkable especially in his unflagging and unquenchable commitment to the possibility of constructive work-- so rare in an age given over so sadly to the work of destruction." Associated Organizations Further Reading The best source for Lilienthal's career is The Journals of David E. Lilienthal (4 vols., 1964-1969), which is complete through 1959. Lilienthal's other major published writing is Big Business: A New Era (1953). Biographical sources include: Willson Whitman, David Lilienthal: Public Servant in a Power Age (1948), basically a paean to Lilienthal's work with the TVA; The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume I, James T. White and Company (1960); New York Times (January 16, 1981); Steven M. Neuse, David E. Lilienthal: the Journey of an American Liberal, The University of Tennessee Press (1996). The TVA's inception and its early development are treated insightfully in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Age of Roosevelt (3 vols., 1957-1960).
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