Hoffman, Paul G. (Paul Gray), 1891-1974

found: LC data base, 5/22/85(hdg.: Hoffman, Paul Gray, 1891-; usage: Paul G. Hoffman)

found: Wikipedia, September 3, 2013(Paul G. Hoffman; Paul Gray Hoffman; American automobile company executive, statesman and global development aid administrator; born April 26, 1891 in Western Springs, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago; he quit college at age 18 to sell Studebaker cars in Los Angeles and made his first million dollars by the age of 34; he served as president of Studebaker from 1935 to 1948; he took a leave of absence to spend a two-year term (1948-1950) as director of the Economic Cooperation Administration, administering the Marshall Plan aid program to Europe following World War II; from 1950 to 1953 he also served as the president of the Ford Foundation; returning to Studebaker in 1953, Hoffman was chairman of the corporation during the turbulent period leading up to and during the 1954 merger with the Packard Motor Car Company; from 1966 to 1972 he was the first administrator of the United Nations Development Programme when it was founded, with David Owen as his co-administrator; he died October 8, 1974 in New York City)