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Brief Descriptions of Connecticut State Agencies

Emergency Relief Commission

Agency Web page | Statutory Authority | Agency History |
Published histories/articles | State Library Collections | List of Commissioners

Agency Web page :
Not available

Statutory Authority :
1935 Cum. Suppl. sec. 110c.

Agency History :

1931. Connecticut State Emergency Committee on Employment established per Governor Trumbull Jan. 1931. Final report issued Feb. 19, 1931.
1931. Connecticut Unemployment Commission established per 931 Special Acts, chpt. 468.
1932. Unemployment Commission issues final report.
1933. Emergency Relief Commission established per Public Acts chpt. 32A.
1935. Continued by 1935 Public Acts chpt. 1.
1937. Terminated by statute limitation, final report issued 1937. Duties transferred to the Commissioner of Welfare. Welfare to administer federal aid for emergency relief.

Published Histories/Articles :
Description of Emergency Relief Commission in Connecticut State Register and Manual, 1934, pp. 280-281. [CSL Call Number ConnDoc R26]

Agency Documents in the State Library Collections :
Check the State Library catalog, CONSULS, under these author headings for publications by the agency available in the State Library :

Connecticut. State Emergency Committee on Employment.
Connecticut. Unemployment Commission.
Connecticut. Emergency Relief Commission.

Final Reports are located in :

Report of the Connecticut State Emergency Committee on Employment to His Excellency Wilbur L. Cross, Governor of Connecticut. Hartford, the Committee, 1931 [CSL Call Number ConnDoc Em73]

Final Report of the Connecticut Unemployment Commission, Measures to Alleviate Unemployment in Connecticut, 1932. [CSL Call Number Cage ConnDoc Un25 me]

Experience of the Emergency Relief Commission with Relief Administration in Connecticut, 1933-1937. The Commission, 1937. [CSL Call Number ConnDoc Em73r 1937]

State Archives Record Group : RG 031, RG 032

List of Chairmen :

Name

Years of Service

James W. Hook 1931-1932
Newton C. Brainard 1933-1937

Prepared by the Government Information and Reference Services Unit, page revised 7/2008.