Harvey Washington Wiley
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Died when: 85 years 243 days (1028 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
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Harvey Washington Wiley (October 18, 1844 – June 30, 1930) was an American chemist who fought for the passage of the landmark Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and subsequently worked at the Good Housekeeping Institute laboratories.
He was the first commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration. In 1904 Wiley was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.
In 1910 he was awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute.
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