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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Richard Roper
Richard Roper
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| Other authors / contributors: | Roper, Richard W., interviewee.
Crowe, Larry, interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded New York, New York 2017 March 29.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Government administrator Richard W. Roper was born on September 20, 1945 in Brunswick, Georgia. He received his B.A. degree in economics from Rutgers University in 1968, and his M.S. degree in public affairs from Princeton University in 1971. Roper began his career as legislative aide to the Mayor of Newark and later as director of the Office of Newark Metropolitan Studies. Roper went on to serve in several federal, state and local government positions, including as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Commerce in the Carter Administration, and as director of the Department's Office of State and Local Government Assistance. Roper joined Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, serving from 1980 to 1992 in several public affairs positions. He also worked with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and was a senior fellow and New Jersey field research analyst at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government.
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