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Executive Order 6131 Constitutional Neutral (+0.02)

Executive Order 6131-A—Relief of Unemployment Through the Performance of Useful Public Work

Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Saturday, May 13, 1933
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7 min read (1,423 words)

Plain-English Translation & Framers' Constitutional Analysis

Early Statesman synthesis distilling legal jargon into practical meaning, statutory anchors, and structural constitutional impacts.

This executive order, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 1933-05-13, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "A—Relief of Unemployment Through the Performance of Useful Public Work." It outlines operative directives for executive department officers, delegating enforcement responsibilities and establishing official governance guidelines.

Constitutional Assessment: Scrutinized through Article II, Section 2, this action exercises the President's constitutional role as Commander in Chief. Early Framers recognized broad executive discretion in commanding military forces during conflict, provided it remains bounded by congressional declarations and respects civilian domestic courts.

Key Directives & Operative Actions

▪ That the following naval surgeons are hereby attached to the War Department for duty with the Civilian Conservation Corps and ordered to report to the Secretary of War for duty upon receipt of written orders from the Secretary of War: First Corps Area, Boston, Mass.; Naval Hospital, Boston, Mass.
▪ Read, MC, USN These officers shall be called by the Secretary of War in accordance with the needs for hospitalization and medical attendance of the Civilian Conservation Corps.
▪ In the issuance of orders to report for duty, naval medical officers shall be given priority over members of the Army Medical Corps Reserve and Navy Medical Corps Reserve and contract physicians.
▪ When these officers report for duty, they shall be placed upon the payrolls of the Civilian Conservation Corps and shall be paid from funds allocated to the Director of Emergency Conservation Work by Executive Order No.

Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted

🏛️ Armed Forces & Military Establishments 🏛️ Sovereign State Governments & Localities 🏛️ Executive Departments & Federal Civil Servants 🏛️ Private Citizens & Property Owners 🏛️ Public Health & Medical Institutions
Total Words
1,423
8,489 characters
Estimated Read Time
7 min
@ 200 words / min
Flesch-Kincaid
5.1
Post-Grad reading level
Constitutional Polarity
+0.02
Framers' Alignment index
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Scholarly & Legal Citations 

Exec. Order No. 6131, Franklin D. Roosevelt (May 13, 1933). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-6131-relief-unemployment-through-the-performance-useful-public-work.

Official Document Text

Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)

Original Source →
Whereas it is provided by the act of Congress entitled "AN ACT For the relief of unemployment through the performance of useful public work, and for other purposes", approved March 31, 1933 (Public, No. 5, 73d Cong.), that "the President is authorized, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe and by utilizing such existing departments or agencies as he may designate, to provide for employing citizens of the United States who are unemployed, in the construction, maintenance and carrying on of works of a public nature * * * ", and Whereas the said act also provides as follows: "The President is further authorized, by regulation, to provide for housing the persons so employed and for furnishing them with such subsistence, clothing, medical attendance and hospitalization, and cash allowance, as may be necessary, during the period they are so employed", and Whereas I am advised by the Secretary of the Navy that, as a result of action taken by the Administrator of the Veterans Administration under the provisions of the act of Congress approved March 20, 1933 (Public, No. 2, 73d Cong.), 169 naval surgeons are available for furnishing medical attendance to citizens provided with employment by the Director of Emergency Conservation Work, and Whereas the responsibility for the hospitalization and medical attendance for the Civilian Conservation Corps has been assigned to the War Department, Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by said acts of Congress or otherwise, it is hereby ordered that the following naval surgeons are hereby attached to the War Department for duty with the Civilian Conservation Corps and ordered to report to the Secretary of War for duty upon receipt of written orders from the Secretary of War: First Corps Area, Boston, Mass.; Naval Hospital, Boston, Mass. Lieutenants (jg) MC, USN Joseph F. Rech Joseph J. Wells Murphy K. Cureton Rudolph E. Swenson Clarence Minnema Donald O. Wissinger Griffin C. Daughtridge Howard L. Puckett Clifford W. Moore Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N.H. Lieut. (jg) Frank J. Gillette, MC, USN Navy Hospital, Portsmouth, N.H. Lieut. (jg) Robert S. Simpson, MC, USN Naval Training Station, Newport, R.I. Lieut. (jg) Alvin J. Cerny, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Ralph M. McComas, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Garland A. Gray, MC, USN Naval Hospital, Newport, R.I. Lieut. (jg) Austin J. Walter, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Carr E. Bentel, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Fred Harbert, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Joseph E. Evans, MC, USN Submarine Base, New London, Conn. Lieut. (jg) Isaac S. McReynolds, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Otto E. Van der Aue, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Benjamin G. Feen, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Robert E. Shands, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Thomas L. Willmon, MC, USN Second Corps Area, Governor's Island, N.Y.; Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y. Lieutenants (jg) MC, USN James R. Reid, Jr. John T. Smith Oran W. Chenault Edgar L. Nefflen James E. Fulghum Edward F. Kline William P. Locke Langdon C. Newman Joseph L. Zundell Wadeeh S. Rizk James G. Neff Cameron L. Hogan Herman A. Gross Charles W. Stelle Douglas T. Prehn Julian Love Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N.Y. Lieut. (jg) Andrew Galloway, MC, USN Receiving Ship, New York, N.Y. Lieut. (jg) John D. Foley, MC, USN Note: En route to United States from Philippines, due New York about June 15. Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N.J. Lieut. (jg) Cecil D. Riggs, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Howard K. Sessions, MC, USN Third Corps Area, Baltimore, Md.: Naval Hospital, League Island, Philadelphia, Pa. Lieutenants (jg) MC, USN Frederick R. Lang Clark G. Grazier Martin H. Benson Robert L. Ware Robert Bell Victor G. Colvin Fitz-John Weddell, Jr. James B. Butler Edward S. Lowe Irving J. Warmolts Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pa. Lieutenants (jg) MC, USN Charles L. Ferguson Joseph V. Land Isadore Zugerman Naval Dispensary, Washington, D.C. Lieut. (jg) Emmett D. Hightower, MC, USN Naval Hospital, Washington, D.C. Lieutenants (jg) MC, USN Francis A. Brunson Weston T. Buddington Paul K. Perkins Adrian J. Delaney Lawrence E. Bach Malcolm W. Arnold Edward T. Gary Keitt H. Smith Clifford P. Powell Alva C. Surber Emory E. Walter Claude R. Ball Navy Yard, Washington, D.C. Lieut. (jg) James E. Wilson, MC, USN Naval Medical School, Washington, D.C. Lieut. (jg) Robert Faust, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Frederic W. Farrar, MC, USN Marine Barracks, Quantico, Va. Lieut. (jg) Clarence F. Morrison, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Thomas M. Arnett, MC, USN Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Lieut. (jg) William F. E. Loftin, MC, USN Norfolk Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va. Lieutenants (jg) MC, USN William T. Booth Frank A. Latham Powell W. Griffith Eugene R. Hammersley John F. Register David J. Cracovaner Clarence C. Myers Gordon B. Tayloe Charles B. Stringfellow Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Va. Lieut. (jg) Bishop L. Malpass, MC, USN Navy Mine Depot, Yorktown, Va. Lieut. (jg) Elmer L. Caveny, MC, USN Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Va. Lieut. (jg) James L. Holland, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) John D. Yarbrough, MC, USN Naval Air Station, Hampton Roads, Va. Lieut. (jg) James E. Reeves, MC, USN Naval Training Station, Hampton Roads, Va. Lieut. (jg) Eugene V. Jobe, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Ernest C. Aulls, MC, USN Fourth Corps Area, Atlanta, Ga.: Marine Barracks, Parris Island, S.C. Lieut. (jg) Earl F. Evans, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) William V. Clark, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Joseph G. Schnebly, MC, USN Naval Hospital, Parris Island, S.C. Lieut. (jg) Alvin R. Carpenter, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Daniel C. Corriher, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Otto L. Burton, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Edward E. Evans, MC, USN Naval Hospital, Charleston, S.C. Lieut. (jg) Robert R. Leamer, MC, USN Naval Hospital, Pensacola, Fla. Lieut. (jg) Hubert J. Van Peenen, MC, USN Sixth Corps Area, Chicago, Ill.: Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, III. Lieut. (jg) Roger R. Olson, MC, USN Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, III. Lieutenants (jg) MC, USN George B. T. Ribble Francis K. Smith Charles D. Bell Gabriel E. Obester Charles R. Moon Edgar Ricen Ferrell H. Johnson Guy E. Stahr William S. Cann Carl H. McMillan John P. Wood DeCoy Marchand William E. Walsh Thomas J. Carter Clark W. Virtue Tilden I. Moe Charles E. Fitzgerald Cecil C. Welch Leland J. Belding Harold G. Young Ninth Corps Area, San Francisco, Calif.: Naval Training Station, San Diego, Calif. Lieut. (jg) Ernest M. Wade, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Jack R. George, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Harold L. Weaver, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) John L. Enyart, MC, USN Naval Air Station, San Diego, Calif. Lieut. (jg) Burt O. Wade, MC, USN Marine Corps Base, San Diego, Calif. Lieut. (jg) George W. Dickinson, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Carl K. Youngkin, MC, USN Naval Dispensary, San Pedro, Calif. Lieut. (jg) Morris M. Rubin, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Arthur F. Gardner, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Melville D. Dickinson, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Carey M. Smith, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) George W. Wright, MC, USN Naval Hospital, San Diego, Calif. Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, III. Lieutenants (jg) MC, USN Ralph D. Handen Leslie D. Ekvall John H. Ward, Jr. Kenneth W. Eikenberry James J. Sapero Paul M. Hoot James R. Sayers Milton R. Wirthlin James J. V. Cammisa James D. Boone William R. Whiteford Thomas G. Hays Ralph C. Boren Louis E. Gilje Louis M. Harris Naval Hospital, Mare Island, Calif. Lieutenants (jg) MC, USN Willard M. Gobbell William H. L. Collis James A. Price Clifford M. Hughes Oscar Schneider Edgar J. Easley Benjamin N. Ahl Anselm C. Hohn Omar J. Brown Courtney G. Clegg Hubert H. Carroll Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Wash. Lieut. (jg) Marcy Shupp, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Stephen E. Flynn, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Paul Vaughnn Naval Hospital, Puget Sound, Wash. Lieut. (jg) Lewis T. Dorgan, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Elbert F. Penry, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Thomas W. McDaniel, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Julian M. Jordan, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) O. Henry Alexander, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) George A. Cann, MC, USN Lieut. (jg) Farra L. Read, MC, USN These officers shall be called by the Secretary of War in accordance with the needs for hospitalization and medical attendance of the Civilian Conservation Corps. In the issuance of orders to report for duty, naval medical officers shall be given priority over members of the Army Medical Corps Reserve and Navy Medical Corps Reserve and contract physicians. When these officers report for duty, they shall be placed upon the payrolls of the Civilian Conservation Corps and shall be paid from funds allocated to the Director of Emergency Conservation Work by Executive Order No. 6101 dated April 5, 1933. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT The White House, May 13, 1933.