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Hershey, Lewis Blaine, 1893-1977 (Item)
  • and duty posts. In 1936, he was made secretary of the Joint Army and Navy Selective Service Committee. When Congress established the first peacetime draft in September 1940, Hershey then served as Deputy Director of the Selective Service System from 1940
Dean, Alan Loren, 1918-2010 (Item)
  • Bio: Alan Loren Dean (b. July 27, 1918, Portland, Oregon-d. December 2, 2010, Arlington County, Virginia), served in various official government positions including posts with the Bureau of the Budget, the Federal Aviation Administration
Nicholson, Ralph W., 1916-1995 (Item)
  • Bio: Ralph W. Nicholson (1916-1995) was Assistant Postmaster General during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. President Kennedy put him in charge of installations and logistics at the Post Office Department in 1961, and he later took over
McCone, John A. (John Alex), 1902-1991 (Item)
  • to Secretary of Defense James Forrestal and in 1950 and 1951 held the post of Under Secretary of the Air Force. In 1958 McCone accepted the chairmanship of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). McCone regularly attended National Security Council and Cabinet
Magnuson, Warren Grant, 1905-1989 (Item)
  • in several local and state-wide political posts until 1936 when he was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Congress. During the Second World War he served in the U.S. Navy attaining the rank of lieutenant commander. He was a member of the Senate from 1944
Feldman, Myer, 1914-2007 (Item)
  • Bio: Myer Feldman, also Mike Feldman, (b. Jun 22, 1914, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-d. March 1, 2007, Bethesda, Maryland) held the post of Deputy Special Counsel to the President throughout the Kennedy administration. He served with Assistant Special
Gammon, Samuel Rhea, III, 1924 (Item)
  • joined the Foreign Service in 1954 and was posted in Palermo and Milan and at the State Department. In 1962 and 1963, he was officer in charge of Italian affairs. From 1963 to 1967, he was principal officer, then consul general, in Asmara. From 1967
Yarborough, Ralph Webster, 1903-1996 (Item)
  • district judge in Austin, serving for five years in that post. From 1943 to 1946, Yarborough served in the Army ground forces in Europe and Japan, rising to lieutenant colonel. He was elected as a Democrat to the Senate in 1957, serving until 1971. Senator
Eisenhower, Milton Stover, 1899-1985 (Item)
  • placement of Japanese-Americans into internment camps, a policy decision he later termed as an "inhuman mistake"; he served in that post for only three months. During the 1950's and 1960's he was U.S. ambassador to Latin America. During his career he also
Goldberg, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph), 1908-1990 (Item)
  • by President Johnson to resign his seat on the court to replace the late Adlai Stevenson as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. In that post, he clashed with Johnson over the course of the Vietnam War. He resigned from the ambassadorship in 1968.
Taylor, Hobart, Jr., 1920-1981 (Item)
  • , Plans for Progress, which promoted equal employment opportunities for people of color among 300 firms. In 1965 President Lyndon Baines Johnson appointed him director of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (1965-1968). In this post he helped