Robert M. Ball

Robert M. Ball

Robert Myers Ball (March 28 1914 - January 29 2008) was an American Social Security official, who served under three presidents (1962-1973) as Commissioner of Social Security. He is the longest-serving head of the Social Security Administration to date. He also founded the National Academy for Social Insurance. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1935, and in 1936 received a master's degree in economics from the same institution.

In the second half of the twentieth century, no one exerted more influence over Social Security than Robert Ball, who in 1947 wrote the key statement defining why social insurance, not welfare, should be America's primary income maintenance program.

References

* [http://www.ssa.gov/history/ball.html Social Security Website]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/30/AR2008013004203.html Washington Post obituary]
* [http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-ball31jan31,0,963555.story Commisssioner Under Three Presidents Passes Away]
* [http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/2298.htm] "Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security" by Edward D. Berkowitz, University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.


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