Overman Act

The Overman Act or Departmental Reorganization Act was legislation sponsored by Senator Lee Slater Overman which broadly expanded the powers of the president to reorganize departments during World War I.

External links[edit]

• War Powers of the Executive in the United States
• Government Organization In War Time And After - A Survey of the Federal Civil Agencies Created for the Prosecution of the War, by William Franklin Willoughby - Director of the Institute for Government Research