One Year: 1942 | 1. The Most Hated Man in America
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Henderson was on the left wing of the Democratic Party. He stood for a lot of small d Democratic things, but to others he was the antithesis of democracy. Leon Henderson died in 1986, at 91 years old. Despite the furor that surrounded him, his work at the Office of Price Administration came to be seen as one of the great economic successes of the war effort.
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