United States Bureau of Efficiency

{{Short description|US government bureau from 1916 to 1933}}

{{confused|Department of Government Efficiency}}

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The United States Bureau of Efficiency{{Cite web |title=REPORT OF THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY FOR THE PERIOD FROM NOVEMBER 1, 1924 TO OCTOBER 31, 1925 |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/SERIALSET-08681_00_00-006-0095-0000/pdf/SERIALSET-08681_00_00-006-0095-0000.pdf |website=United States Government Publishing Office |access-date=November 12, 2024 |archive-date=November 12, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241112192341/https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/SERIALSET-08681_00_00-006-0095-0000/pdf/SERIALSET-08681_00_00-006-0095-0000.pdf |url-status=live }} was a bureau under the United States federal government from 1916 to 1933. The Woodrow Wilson administration established this bureau for creating efficiency ratings "for the classified service in the several executive departments in the District of Columbia".{{cite book|last=Efficiency|first=United States. Bureau of|title=Annual Report of the United States Bureau of Efficiency|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6RkVAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA125|accessdate=7 February 2017|year=1919|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=1–}}{{cite book|last=Lee|first=Mordecai|title=Institutionalizing Congress and the Presidency: The U.S. Bureau of Efficiency, 1916-1933|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NmxS7uRlEMgC|accessdate=7 February 2017|year=2006|publisher=Texas A&M University Press|isbn=9781603445351}}{{cite journal|last=Fawcett|first=Waldon|title=Building a Model Filing System|journal=The Office Economist|volume=4|year=1922|publisher=Art Metal Construction Company|pages=7–|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EY0eAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22bureau+of+efficiency%22+founded&pg=PT172}} Prior to 1916, its efforts had been organized under the Division of Efficiency within the United States Civil Service Commission.{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DhNGAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Bureau+of+Efficiency%22+division+1913&pg=PA69|title=Bureau of Efficiency|last=Gallivan|first=James A.|work=The Postal Record|publisher=National Association of Letter Carriers|page=69|date=1919|accessdate=7 February 2017}} The bureau was discontinued when Franklin D. Roosevelt assumed the presidency in 1933.

In 1915, Woodrow Wilson, then president of the United States, appointed Herbert D. Brown to head the bureau.{{cite web |title=Brown, Herbert D. (Herbert Daniel), 1870-1963 |url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10611557 |accessdate=7 February 2017 |publisher=National Archives and Records Administration |archive-date=7 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207113757/https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10611557 |url-status=live }}