John Kenneth Galbraith: A timeline of his life

1908 – Born Oct. 15, in Iona Station, Ontario, Canada

1931 – Receives bachelor of science degree from University of Toronto (Ontario Agricultural College)

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1933 – Receives master of science degree from University of California

1934 – Receives Ph.D. from University of California

1934-1939 – Instructor and tutor at Harvard

1937 – Becomes American citizen

1937 – Sept. 17, marries Catherine “Kitty” Atwater

1937-1938 – Postgraduate work at University of Cambridge

1939-1942 – Assistant professor of economics at Princeton

1940-1941 – Economic adviser National Defense Advisory Commission

1941-1942 – Assistant administrator in charge of price division, Office of Price Administration

1942-1943 – Department administrator, Office of Price Administration

1943-1948 – Member, Board of Editors, Fortune Magazine

1945 – Director of U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey

1946 – Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom, highest civilian honor in U.S., from President Truman

1948-1949 -Lecturer at Harvard

1949 – Becomes professor of economics at Harvard

1952 – Publishes “American Capitalism” and “A Theory of Price Control”

1955 – Publishes “The Great Crash”

1955 – Publishes “Economics and the Art of Controversy”

1958 – Publishes “The Affluent Society”

1959 – Becomes Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard

1960 – Publishes “The Liberal Hour”

1961-1963 – U.S. ambassador to India

1967 – Publishes “The New Industrial State”

1967-1968 – Chairman, Americans for Democratic Action

1968 – Publishes first novel, “The Triumph,” a best seller

1972 – President, American Economic Association

1973 – Publishes “Economics and the Public Purpose”

1975 – Retires from Harvard and becomes professor emeritus

1977 – Publishes “The Age of Uncertainty”

1982 – Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters

1990 – Publishes second novel, “A Tenured Professor”

1996 – Publishes “The Good Society”

2000 – Aug. 9, receives Presidential Medal of Freedom, highest civilian honor in U.S., from President Clinton

2001 – Publishes “The Essential Galbraith”

2004 – Publishes “The Economics of Innocent Fraud”

2005 – Richard Parker publishes biography, “John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics”

2006 – Dies in Cambridge, Mass., April 29, at age 97