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Joseph R. Houchins

1900–1990

United States

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Joseph Roosevelt Houchins (August 9, 1900 – January 5, 1990) was an American labor economist, attorney, and academic. He was a member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Black Cabinet, a leader of the Division of Negro Affairs in the United States Department of Commerce, and a chair and professor of economics at Howard University.

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