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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
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