Rexford Tugwell residence Sinclairville
Early life and education
Rexford Tugwell was born in 1891 in Sinclairville, New York. In his youth, he gained an appreciation for workers’ rights and liberal politics from the works of Upton Sinclair, James Bryce, Edward Bellamy, Frederick Winslow Taylor, and Charles Richard van Hise. Tugwell began studying economics in graduate work at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and completed his doctorate at Columbia University.  At university, he was influenced by the teaching of Scott Nearing and Simon Patten, as well as the writings of  John Dewey in philosophy.
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