[2] Speechwriter for Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaigns, 1952 and 1956. Agricultural advisor for Kennedy's presidential campaign, 1960.
Father: William Galbraith ("Archie", teacher and farmer)
Mother: Catherine (d. heart attack)
Wife: Catherine Atwater ("Kitty", m. 1937, four sons)
Son: Douglas Galbraith (d. leukemia)
Son: J. Alan Galbraith (attorney)
Son: Peter Galbraith (US Ambassador to Croatia)
Son: James K. Galbraith (economics professor)
University: BS, University of Toronto (1931)
University: MS, University of California at Berkeley (1933)
University: PhD, University of California at Berkeley (1934)
Professor: Harvard University (1934-39)
Professor: Harvard University (1948-75)
Professor: University of Texas at Austin
US Ambassador to India (1961-63)
Fortune Editor (1943-48)
American Academy of Arts and Letters 1982
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Economic Association President (1972)
American Philosophical Society 1980
Americans for Democratic Action President (1967)
Council for a Livable World Board of Directors
Women's Action Alliance Board of Directors
Presidential Medal of Freedom 1946
Humanist of the Year 1985
Presidential Medal of Freedom 9-Aug-2000
Naturalized US Citizen 1937
Scottish Ancestry
Risk Factors: Depression
Is the subject of books:
John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics, 2005, BY: Richard Parker
Author of books:
A Theory of Price Control (1952, economics)
American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power (1952, economics)
The Affluent Society (1958, economics)
The New Industrial State (1967, economics)
Ambassador's Journal: A Personal Account of the Kennedy Years (1969, memoir)
Economics and the Public Purpose (1973, economics)
A Life In Our Times (1981, memoirs)
The Culture of Contentment (1992, nonfiction)
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