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Leonard Dupee White (January 17 1891 – February 23 1958) was an American historian who specialized in public administration in the United States. His technique was to study administration in the context of grouped U.S. presidential terms. An important founder of the field White worked at the University of Chicago after service in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt.White was born in Acton Massachusetts to John Sidney White and Bertha H. (Dupee) White.