LC control no. | n 94079488 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Seaton, Fred A. (Fred Andrew), 1909-1974 |
Variant(s) | Seaton, F. A. (Fred Andrew), 1909-1974 Seaton, Frederick Andrew, 1909-1974 |
Birth date | 19091211 |
Death date | 19740116 |
Place of birth | Washington (D.C.) |
Place of death | Minneapolis (Minn.) |
Affiliation | Nebraska. Legislature. Senate Hastings College United States. Congress. Senate United States. Department of Defense United States. Department of the Interior. Office of the Secretary |
Profession or occupation | Publishers and publishing Legislators--United States |
Found in | NUCMC data from Dwight D. Eisenhower Libr. for Schooley, C.H. Papers, 1954-1975 (Fred A. Seaton) WwWA, 1974-1976 (Seaton, Frederick Andrew; newspaper publisher; b. Dec. 11, 1909; asst. sec. of def. for legis. affairs, 1953-1955; asst. to Pres. 1955; sec. of Interior, 1956-1961; d. Jan. 17, 1974) N.Y. times personal names index, 1851-1974 (Seaton, Fred A.; Seaton, F.A.; Seaton, Fred Andrew; Seaton, Frederick A.) Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, via WWW, November 20, 2013 (Seaton, Frederick Andrew (1909 - 1974); a Senator from Nebraska; born in Washington, D.C., December 11, 1909; attended the public schools in Manhattan, Kans., and Kansas State College at Manhattan; president of Seaton Publishing Co., Hastings, Nebr., and publisher of Hastings Daily Tribune; also interested in several daily and weekly newspapers and operating radio and TV stations; member, State senate, 1945-1949; chairman of legislative council, 1947-1949; secretary to Republican presidential candidate Alfred M. Landon in 1936; trustee of Hastings College and University of Nebraska Foundation; appointed on December 10, 1951 as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Kenneth S. Wherry and served from December 10, 1951, to November 4, 1952; was not a candidate for election to the vacancy; Assistant Secretary of Defense, 1953-1955; administrative assistant to President Dwight Eisenhower from February to June 1955, then made deputy assistant, in which capacity he served until May 1956; Secretary of the Interior, 1956-1961; resumed the publishing business; died in Minneapolis, Minn. January 16, 1974; interment in Parkview Cemetery, Hastings, Nebr.) |
Associated language | eng |