Warren Gamaliel Harding Veterans' Bureau 1921

Warren Gamaliel Harding Veterans' Bureau 1921






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Established: Effective March 15, 1989, by the Department of Veterans Affairs Act (102 Stat. 2635), October 25, 1988. This law raised the Veterans Administration to department-level status in the Executive branch without change in mission or functions, and redesignated the agency as the Department of Veterans Affairs.Predecessor Agencies:

• Military Bounty Lands and Pension Branch, War Department (ca. 1810-15)
• Pension Bureau, War Department (1815-33)
• Office of Commissioner of Pensions, War Department (1833-49)
• Bureau of Pensions, Department of the Interior (1849-1930)
• Bureau of War Risk Insurance, Treasury Department (1914-21) Rehabilitation Division, Federal Board for Vocational Education (1918-21)
• Veterans Bureau (1921)
• U.S. Veterans Bureau (1921-30)
• National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers of the United States (1866-73) National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (1873-1930)
• Office of the Surgeon General, War Department (supplying of artificial limbs and other devices only, 1862-1930)
• Veterans Administration (1930-89)