William Franklin Willoughby (born 1867 in Alexandria, Virginia – died 1960) was an author of public administration texts including works on budgeting. He often worked with his twin brother, Westel W. Willoughby.

He graduated from Johns Hopkins University, 1885^[1]

Family

Wife: Bessie Talbot (Appleby) Willoughby^[1] Siblings: brother, Westel Woodbury Willoughby (1867–1945); sister, Alice Estelle Willoughby^[1]

Biography

He was born on 20 July 1867 in Alexandria, Virginia to Westel Willoughby and his wife Jennie.

• Died: 6 May 1960 of a heart attack, Newport News, Virginia
• Graduated from Johns Hopkins University, 1885^[1]
• Siblings: brother, Westel Woodbury Willoughby (1867–1945); sister, Alice Estelle Willoughby^[1]
• Wife: Bessie Talbot (Appleby) Willoughby^[1]

Leadership Positions

• Statistical expert for U.S. Department of Labor, 1885^[1]
• Member of International Jury of Awards, Paris Exposition of 1900^[1]
• Instructor of economics at Harvard, 1901^[1]
• First Director of Brookings Institution
• Treasurer, secretary, and president of Executive Council of Puerto Rico of the Island of Puerto Rico, appointed Nov. 9 1901 by President Theodore Roosevelt, 1901–1909^[1][2]
• Assistant director of U.S. Census, 1910^[1]
• Member of U.S. Commission of Economy and Efficiency in Government^[1]
• McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton, 1912^[1]
• Deputy legal advisor to president of China,Yuan Shikai, 1914–1916^[1][3]
• Director of the Institute for Government Research, 1916–1932^[1]
• President of the American Political Science Association, 1931–1932
• Consultant to the Library of Congress, 1940–1944^[1]

Publications

• Child Labor. By William F. Willoughby, A.B., and Miss Clare de Graffenried. Publications of the  American Economic Association.^[4]
• Workingmen's Insurance. Crowell and Company. 1898.^[5]
• The System of Financial Administration of Great Britain. A. Report by William F. Willoughby, Westel W. Willoughby, and Samuel Mccdne Lindsay. With- an Introduction by A. Laurence Lowell. (New York.: Appleton and Co. for the Institute of Government Research. 1917.)^[6]
• The Movement for Budgetary Reform in the States, D. Appleton and Co. NY. 1918
• The Government of Modern States, The Century Co., 1919
• Government Organization in War Time and After: A Survey of the Federal Civil Agencies Created for the Prosecution of the War, 1919
• The National Budget System, With Suggestions for Its Improvement, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1927
• Principles of judicial administration. Brooking Institution, 1929.^[7]
• Financial Condition and Operations of the National Government 1921–1930, The Brookings Institution, 1931