Franklin D. Roosevelt

Statement on Removal of Federal Trade Commissioner Humphrey

October 07, 1933

The President has removed Commissioner Humphrey as a Member of the Federal Trade Commission.

In his place he has appointed Mr. George C. Matthews of Wisconsin, for many years a Member of the Public Utility Commission of that State. He is at the present time rate expert for the receivers of the Insull utilities. Mr. Matthews is a Republican.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Statement on Removal of Federal Trade Commissioner Humphrey Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207710

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