Frederic C. Howe

Frederic Clemson Howe was a Progressive Era reformer, politician and author. He served one term in the Ohio Senate, then became managing director of the People's Institute in New York in 1910 and Commissioner of Immigration of the Port of New York in 1914. He also founded the League of Small and Subject Nationalities. He wrote 17 books, and is credited with first using the phrase big business in 1905.