| LC control no. | n 88027492 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Pace, Frank, Jr., 1912-1988 |
| Birth date | 19120705 |
| Death date | 19880108 |
| Place of birth | Little Rock (Ark.) |
| Place of death | Greenwich (Conn.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Army Air Forces United States. Attorney-General United States. Postmaster General United States. Bureau of the Budget United States. Department of the Army General Dynamics Corporation International Executive Service Corps Corporation for Public Broadcasting |
| Profession or occupation | Executives Lawyers Public officers |
| Found in | NUCMC data from Harry S. Truman Libr. for his Papers, 1946-53 (Pace, Frank, 1912-; lawyer, govt. official, and corporate executive) WWA 1974-75 (Pace, Frank, Jr., corporation executive, b. 1912 in Little Rock, Ark.) New York Times, 1/11/88 (Frank Pace Jr., former secretary of the Army and executive, d. 1/8/88 in Greenwich, Conn.; survived by his wife, the former Margaret Morris Janney, of Philadelphia, and three daughters) Wikipedia, October 30, 2013 (Frank Pace; Frank Pace, Jr. (July 5, 1912-January 8, 1988) was the 3rd United States Secretary of the Army and a business executive; he graduated from Princeton University in 1933 and from Harvard University in 1936; Pace entered public service in 1936 as an assistant district attorney in Arkansas; he moved on to the Arkansas Revenue Department in 1938; in 1942 he was commissioned into the United States Army Air Forces as a second lieutenant where he served until 1945 in the Air Transport Command, Army Air Corps, reaching the rank of Major; after leaving the Army in 1945 he returned to public service as an assistant to the United States Attorney General, then later as executive assistant to the Postmaster General; he then moved in 1948 to the Bureau of the Budget, first as assistant director and then as director; on April 12, 1950 he was appointed Secretary of the Army, where he served until January 20, 1953; he went on to serve as chief executive officer of General Dynamics Corporation from 1953 until 1962; in 1964, Pace joined David Rockefeller in launching the International Executive Service Corp, then later served as the president of IESC; he was the first chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, from 1968 until 1972) |
| Associated language | eng |
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