Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization

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The Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, created in 1958 originally as Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization, was an office of the Executive Office of the President of the United States which consolidated the functions of the existing Office of Defense Mobilization and the Federal Civil Defense Administration.{{cite web |url=https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/396.html |title=Records of the Office of Emergency Preparedness | National Archives |date= |series= |publisher=The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration |access-date=7 April 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-72/pdf/STATUTE-72-Pg861.pdf |title=Reorganization Plan Numbered 1 Amendment of 1958 ~ P.L. 85-763 |date=August 26, 1958 |series=72 Stat. 861 ~ Senate Bill 4059 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office}}{{cite web |url= http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=11103 |title= Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Letter to Leo A. Hoegh, Administrator of Federal Civil Defense, on His Becoming Director, Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization.," June 24, 1958 |author1=Peters, Gerhard |author2=Woolley, John T |publisher = University of California - Santa Barbara |work= The American Presidency Project}} The civil defense functions of the office were transferred to the Department of Defense's Office of Civil Defense from August 1, 1961. With its remaining functions, the office was re-designated as the Office of Emergency Planning from September 22, 1961.{{cite book

|title=The United States Government Manual

|year=1995

|quote=Mobilization, Office of Defense and Civilian Established by Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1958

|url=http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GOVMAN-1995-07-01/html/GOVMAN-1995-07-01-Pg791.htm}} It eventually was renamed the Office of Emergency Preparedness from October 21, 1968, and abolished on July 1, 1973.

Directors

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Name

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!colspan=2 |President

{{sortname|Leo|Hoegh}}

|{{dts|July 1, 1958}}

|{{dts|January 20, 1961}}

|style="background: {{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |

|{{sortname|Dwight D.|Eisenhower}}
(1953–1961)

style="background-color:#E6E6AA;" |{{sortname|John|Patterson|John S. Patterson}}
{{small|Acting}}

|style="background-color:#E6E6AA;" |{{dts|January 20, 1961}}

|style="background-color:#E6E6AA;" |{{dts|January 27, 1961}}

|rowspan=5 style="background: {{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |

|rowspan=5 |{{sortname|John F.|Kennedy}}
(1961–1963)

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|{{sortname|Lewis|Berry}}
{{small|Acting}}

|{{dts|January 27, 1961}}

|{{dts|March 9, 1961}}

{{sortname|Frank|Ellis|Frank Burton Ellis}}

|{{dts|March 9, 1961}}

|{{dts|February 2, 1962}}

rowspan=3 |{{sortname|Edward|McDermott|Edward A. McDermott}}

|style="background-color:#E6E6AA;" |{{dts|February 2, 1962}}

|style="background-color:#E6E6AA;" |{{dts|April 12, 1962}}

{{dts|April 12, 1962}}

|{{dts|November 22, 1963}}

{{dts|November 22, 1963}}

|{{dts|March 4, 1965}}

|rowspan=4 style="background: {{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |

|rowspan=4 |{{sortname|Lyndon B.|Johnson}}
(1963–1969)

{{sortname|Buford|Ellington}}

|{{dts|March 4, 1965}}

|{{dts|March 23, 1966}}

{{sortname|Farris|Bryant|C. Farris Bryant}}

|{{dts|March 23, 1966}}

|{{dts|October 9, 1967}}

{{sortname|Price|Daniel}}

|{{dts|October 9, 1967}}

|{{dts|January 20, 1969}}

{{sortname|George|Lincoln}}

|{{dts|January 29, 1969}}

|{{dts|January 20, 1973}}

|rowspan=2 style="background: {{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |

|rowspan=2 |{{sortname|Richard|Nixon}}
(1969–1974)

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|{{sortname|Darrell|Trent}}
{{small|Acting}}

|{{dts|January 20, 1973}}

|{{dts|July 1, 1973}}

See also

References