Note: This article is about the two commissions, 1947-1949 and 1953-1955, headed by former President Herbert Hoover to recommend administrative changes to promote efficiency in the United States Government. A "Little Hoover Commission" was created by the U.S. state of California in 1962 to perform a similar role for that state's government. Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ...

The Hoover Commission, officially named the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, was a body appointed by President Harry S. Truman in 1947 to recommend administrative changes in the Federal Government of the United States. It took its popular name from former President Herbert Hoover, who was appointed by Truman to chair it. The presidential seal was used by President Hayes in 1880 and last modified in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii. ... Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953); as Vice President, he succeeded to the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... This law-related article does not cite its references or sources. ... Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964), the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933), was a successful mining engineer, humanitarian, and administrator. ...

Authorized by Congress in the Lodge-Brown Act of 1947 (named for Representative Clarence J. Brown, Sr. of Ohio and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. of Massachusetts), the commission first met September 29, 1947. Besides Hoover, its members were Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Senator George Aiken of Vermont, Representative Brown, Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal, Civil Service Commissioner Arthur S. Flemming, former Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, political scientist James Kerr Pollock, attorney James H. Rowe, Representative Carter Manasco of Alabama, industrialist George Mead and Senator John L. McClellan of Arkansas. Aiken, Brown, Flemming, Hoover, Mead and Pollock were Republicans. Acheson, Forrestal, Kennedy, Manasco, McClellan and Rowe were Democrats. The commission was supported by a large staff and numerous expert task forces. Seal of the U.S. Congress. ... Clarence J. Brown Sr. ... Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. ... September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. ... Dean Acheson Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was a United States Secretary of State under President Harry S. Truman. ... George David Aiken (August 20, 1892–November 19, 1984) was an American politician from Vermont. ... Seal of the United States Department of Defense The United States Secretary of Defense is the head of the United States Department of Defense, concerned with the armed services and The Secretary is appointed by the President with the approval of the Senate, and is a member of the Cabinet. ... James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892–May 22, 1949) was a Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense (1947 - 1949). ... The Office of Personnel Management or OPM is the United States government agency which serves to manage the civil service of the United States by the recruitment of qualified personnel into and the administration of their careers as part of the United States Civil Service. ... Arthur Sherwood Flemming was a United States Secretary of Health and Welfare between 1958 - 1961 under the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower. ... Joseph Joe Patrick Kennedy, Sr. ... Political science is an academic and research discipline that deals with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. ... John Little McClellan (25 February 1896 – 28 November 1977) was a member of the US Senate|United States Senate and United States House of Representatives from Arkansas. ... This article is about the modern United States Republican Party. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. ... A task force or task group is a temporary organization formed to work on a single defined task or activity. ...

In early 1949, the Commission forwarded its findings and a total of 273 recommendations to Congress in a series of nineteen separate reports. A 1955 study concluded that 116 of the recommendations were fully implemented and that another 80 were mostly or partly implemented. 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The commission was officially terminated on June 12, 1949. However, a Second Hoover Commission was created by Congress in 1953 during the adminstration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Also headed by Hoover, the second commission sent its final report to Congress in June 1955. June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ... Dwight David Ike Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American soldier and politician. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Reference links

• National Archives: Records of the Commissions on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (Hoover Commissions)
• Pemberton, William E., "Truman and the Hoover Commission," Whistle Stop, the Newsletter of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute, v. 19, no. 3, 1991.
• Truman Presidential Library and Museum: Hoover Commission Special Subject Guide
• Hoover Presidential Library and Museum: Commissions on the Organization of the Executive Branch (Herbert Hoover Papers)