George Creel

Creel immediately used the office to launch several ambitious reform campaigns—such as ordering police officers to give up their clubs and nightsticks as well as a campaign to destroy the red-light district in downtown Denver while providing a tax-funded "rehabilitation farm" for women leaving prostitution. The couple had two children a son named George Jr.

He said of himself that "an open mind is not part of my inheritance. ". George Creel (December 1 1876 – October 2 1953) was an investigative journalist a politician and most famously the head of the United States Committee on Public Information a propaganda organization created by President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.