[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, d. 2008, 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
Library of Congress Living Legend 2000
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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