Paul M. Herzog, Professor, Ex-NLRB Chairman, Dies
Paul M. Herzog, 80, a lawyer, educator, philanthropist and chairman of the National Labor Relations Board in the Truman Administration, died Sunday at his Manhattan home.
Herzog graduated from Columbia Law School in 1936. He was an instructor in government and economics at the University of Wisconsin and at Harvard from 1928 to 1931. Herzog returned to Harvard to become associate dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, where he later served as acting dean from 1953 to 1957.
He was appointed chairman of the NLRB in 1945 by President Harry S. Truman, where he was known as the compromise member of the five-man board, astute at reaching a consensus. He resigned in 1953 when he returned to academia.
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