╟PARA ┐PAR@ ` ╟TEXT ` ╣Rosenberg, Anna Marie1902╨1983public official and businesswomanBorn on June 19, 1902, in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, Anna Lederer emigrated with her family to the United States in 1912. While in high school she did volunteer work at military hospitals in the New York area and sold Liberty bonds. In October 1919 she married Julius Rosenberg, a merchant, and in the same year she became a naturalized citizen. A short time later she became active in Democratic politics, first in her assembly district and gradually on the state level. Her success as an organizer of campaign events enabled her to set herself up as a consultant in public, personnel, and labor relations in 1924. Rosenberg worked frequently with Governor Alfred E. Smith and with his successor, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, and in 1934 she was appointed assistant to the New York regional director of the National Recovery Administration. The next year, shortly before the NRA was struck down by the Supreme Court, she succeeded to the directorship. In 1936╨1937 she served as New York regional director of the Social Security Board, and in the latter year she served also on the New York City Industrial Relations Board and as chairman of the subcommittee on a bill of rights and general welfare of the New York State Constitutional Committee. In 1938 she was a member of a presidential committee sent to study industrial relations in Great Britain and Sweden. During World War II she served in numerous governmental capacities, including regional director for the War Manpower Commission in 1942╨1945. In 1944 she traveled to Europe as President Roosevelt╒s personal observer to report on problems of returning soldiers, and in 1945 she performed a similar service for President Harry S. Truman. In 1945 Rosenberg returned to her consulting business, which prospered with a large clientele of leading business firms and influential public figures. From 1946 to 1950 she was a member of the American Commission for UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). In 1950 she became an adviser to the chairman of the National Security Resources Board, W. Stuart Symington, and in November of that year she was named assistant secretary of defense with responsibility for manpower. She held the post until January 1953, when she resumed the active presidency of Anna M. Rosenberg Associates, her consulting firm. She continued to serve in occasional advisory capacities in government and was a director of numerous businesses, foundations, and philanthropic institutions. In 1961 she was elected to the New York City Board of Education. (From 1962 until his death in 1974 she was married to Paul Gray Hoffman, businessman, administrator of the Marshall Plan in 1948╨1950, and later administrator of the UN Development Programmer.) Among her many awards were the Medal of Freedom in 1945 and the Medal for Merit, of which she was the first woman recipient, in 1947. She served on the Board of Education of New York City from 1961 to 1963, and on the National Advisory Committee on Selective Service from 1966 to 1967. In 1966 she received the Medallion of the City of New York. She died in her home in New York City on May 9, 1983. ╓styl `
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