The Life of Pennsylvania Governor George M. Leader

The Life of Pennsylvania Governor George M. Leader PDF

Author: Kenneth C. Wolensky

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2011-09-16

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1611460794

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The Life of Pennsylvania Governor George M. Leader stands as the only oral history-based account of a Pennsylvania governor. Written by a leading Pennsylvania historian while the former governor was in his 9th decade of life, here Governor Leader tells his remarkable story and the story of Pennsylvania politics in an era quite different from today.

State Government in Transition

State Government in Transition PDF

Author: Reed M. Smith

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1512809713

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This book offers a case study of the George M. Leader administration in Pennsylvania, 1955-1959, with particular reference to the administrative rather than the political changes that took place during that period. Governor Leader was more active in the reorganization of the central staff services in Pennsylvania than any governor since the 1920s.The most significant changes resulted from the establishment of an Office of Administration within the governor's office. This department embraced a number of staff and operating functions including central budgeting and program evaluation. Over half the text is concerned with the new function of program evaluation, which the Leader administration treated as a basic administrative process, requiring a structure and identity separate from that of the other staff functions. The author also discusses the traditional nature of the governorship in Pennsylvania, noting the changes that took place as a result of the political and administrative transition in 1955. These changes were in the form of personnel brought into the state service at all levels, the extension of civil service by executive order, the use of patronage, removal power, executive clemency, and other fiscal and personnel reforms. Other significant stare issues discussed by the author include the use of advisory groups, the nature of the governor's cabinet and staff, the role of "egg heads" in government, the merit system and its extension in a strong patronage situation, and fiscal policy. State Government in Transition is not only a valuable addition to the literature on state government; it is also a book of great practical value—particularly for the political scientist, student, government worker, or politician. An appendix with a comparative chart of the governors of Pennsylvania under the Constitution of 1874, which is still in effect, and an organizational chart of the governor's office in 1960 supplement the text.

Annual Message of the Governor of Pennsylvania, Transmitted to the Senate and House of Representatives

Annual Message of the Governor of Pennsylvania, Transmitted to the Senate and House of Representatives PDF

Author: Pennsylvania Governor

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-10-11

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9781391798141

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Excerpt from Annual Message of the Governor of Pennsylvania, Transmitted to the Senate and House of Representatives: Read in Both Houses, on Wednesday, January 6, 1847 Since the last adjournment of the General Assembly, the peace, which had so long subsisted between this nation and, the other nations of the world, has been disturbed by the war between the United States and Mexico. The grave causes which have produced this rupture, are ably, and satisfactorily set forth in the late annual Message of, the President to_ Congress. They show a dignified forbearance on the part of this Government, under multiplied wrongs and aggressions, and, a laudable desire to pre serve peace, while its blessings could be secured consistently with the national honor. A free people conscious that they ask nothing but What is right, cannot submit to wrong, and however much they may deprecate the evils of war, their just rights must be maintained. Hence Congress, on the 13th of May, 1846, announced, that bythe act pf Mexico a state of war existed between that government and the United States, and for the purpose of prosecuting it to a speedy and successful termination, the President 'was authorized ti) employ the militia, naval and military forces of the United States, and to call for'and accept the services of fifty thousand volunteers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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