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Cordell Hull of Tennessee headed the Ways and Means subcommittee that wrote the income tax provision for the Underwood Tariff of 1913. The provision was the first tax measure drafted under the 16th Amendment. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Hull Secretary of State. World War II made his tenure one of the most critical in the nation's history. Hull was the principal architect of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934. Enacted by his former colleagues on Ways and Means, this act authorized the executive branch to negotiate lower tariffs with trading nations. In 1945, at age 75, Hull was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
