Thomas Norman Hurd [24 Apr 1910-27 Feb 1999] was New York state budget director under Governors Dewey (1950-1954) and Rockefeller (1958-1971), and director of Operations (1971-1972). Additionally, he was Secretary to Governors Rockefeller (1972) and Wilson (1973-1974). He was special assistant to Vice President Rockefeller, with weekly reports during New York City’s budget crisis. Other state positions included a staff position in the State Senate, on the State Board of Regents (1956-1958), and on the original overseer board to the Institute of Government (1983). In addition to monographs on local government finances in the 1930s, he co-edited Rockefeller in Retrospect: The Governor’s New York Legacy (1984), and Making Experience Count: Managing Modern New York in the Carey Era (1985). He graduated from Michigan State University (1931) and earned a doctorate at Cornell University (1936) where he was professor of agricultural economics (1931-1950).