Alexander Trowbridge

Alexander Buel Trowbridge

Alexander Buel Trowbridge III (born December 12, 1929 in Englewood , New Jersey , †  April 27, 2006 in Washington, DC ) was an American businessman and politician who held the post of US for several months under President Lyndon B. Johnson Minister of Commerce .

After attending Phillips Academy Trowbridge took in 1948 at the International Internship Program of the United Nations in part, at his headquarters in Lake Success in the State of New York , he was employed. In 1950 he interned for Congressman Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. The following year he received his bachelor's degree from Princeton , after which he entered the service of the CIA and fought as a member of the United States Marine Corps in the Korean War.

From 1954, Alexander Trowbridge worked in the oil business before President Johnson appointed him Assistant Secretary of Commerce in 1965 . On January 19, 1967, after the resignation of John T. Connor, he took over provisional management of the ministry before officially succeeding it as Minister of Commerce on June 14 of the same year. He tried unsuccessfully to merge his ministry with the Ministry of Labor . On March 1, 1968, he made his post available again to pursue his business activities. He became president of the American Management Association two months later and served as vice chairman of a chemical company from 1976 to 1980. From 1980 to 1990 he was head of the National Association of Manufacturers .

Alexander Trowbridge, whose ancestor was Roger Sherman , one of the United States ' founding fathers , died in 2006 in Washington, DC and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

literature

• Alexander B. Trowbridge , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 29/2006 of July 22, 2006, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Web links

• Alexander Trowbridge in the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia (English)