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Woodrow Wilson: A person resigning a scientific, professional, or technical position in the competitive service in which he has acquired…

On the recordMay 21, 1917
A person resigning a scientific, professional, or technical position in the competitive service in which he has acquired training and experience not to be acquired elsewhere, to enter the public service of a State, county, municipality, or foreign government in a similar capacity, may immediately upon the completion of such service be reinstated in the Department in which he formerly served, upon the certificate of the Commission issued upon the requisition of the Department dated within three years from the date of his separation from the competitive service.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Executive Order 2626—Reinstating Certain Persons Formerly in the Competitive Service

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