Executive Order 7140—Authorizing the Appointment of Mrs. Ruth Hampton as Assistant Director, Division of Territories and Island Possessions, Without Regard to Civil-Service Rules
By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the provisions of paragraph Eighth of subdivision SECOND of section 2 of the Civil Service Act of January 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403, 404), it is hereby ordered that Mrs. Ruth Hampton, of Illinois, may be appointed as Assistant Director, Division of Territories and Island Possessions, Department of the Interior, without compliance with the civil-service rules and without being accorded a classified status.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The White House,
August 13, 1935.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 7140—Authorizing the Appointment of Mrs. Ruth Hampton as Assistant Director, Division of Territories and Island Possessions, Without Regard to Civil-Service Rules Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/376949