Executive Order 7280—Evidencing, Validating, and Confirming the Creation of the Federal Housing Administration

Whereas the National Housing Act, approved June 27, 1934 (48 Stat. 1246), authorized the President to create a Federal Housing Administration and to appoint a Federal Housing Administrator to exercise all the powers of said Administration; and

Whereas, pursuant to such authorization, I did on the 30th day of June 1934 create the Federal Housing Administration, and did on the 30th day of June 1934 appoint a Federal Housing Administrator, whose appointment was confirmed by the Senate of the United States on January 18, 1935; and

Whereas since the said 30th day of June 1934 the powers, duties, and functions of the Federal Housing Administration have been exercised and performed by the Federal Housing Administrator:

Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, do hereby issue this Executive order as evidence of the creation of the said Federal Housing Administration, and do hereby in all things validate and confirm the creation thereof.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
January 28, 1936.