Milo Randolph Perkins (1900–1972)[1] was an American economic expert working for the Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC.

[2] Born in Missouri, Milo Perkins became a successful businessman in Houston, Texas, launching the ‘King-Perkins-Bag Company’ in 1917 for the production of burlap bags.

[4] In a 1939 publication, Perkins was titled as the “President of the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation”, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

[5] In 1942, Perkins was featured as one of the prominent "young New Dealers" along with Francis Biddle, Archibald Macleish and Abe Fortas.

In 1944. he had resigned from his last official post in Washington, being ‘Executive Director of the Board of Economic Warfare’.