Bruce Charles Savage

Bruce Charles Savage (1906 – 4 February 1993) was the United States Public Housing Administration Commissioner under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, serving from 1960 to 1961. A moderate Rockefeller Republican, he sought to expand the services of national public housing at a time when public housing was limited in most areas and discouraged by many in both political parties. He was largely seen as a hands-on commissioner whose appointment was considered by others as an indication that Eisenhower was becoming serious about expanding public housing. The US Public Housing Authority was later expanded under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and became the present-day Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Savage was born in...