Donald A. Quarles

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Donald A. Quarles

Donald Aubrey Quarles (born July 30, 1894 in Van Buren , Arkansas , †  May 8, 1959 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician who was both US Secretary of the Air Force and US Deputy Secretary of Defense .

Life

After attending the High School studied Quarles 1910-1912 at the Summer School University of Missouri and was in the meantime as a teacher of mathematics at the Van Buren High School operates. In 1912 he began studying at Yale University and graduated in 1916 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). In May 1917 he began his military service in the US Army and, after the USA entered the First World War, served in France and Germany and was most recently promoted to captain of the field artillery .

After his return, he was an engineer with the Western Electric Company between 1920 and 1921 and studied theoretical physics at Columbia University . After completing his studies, he was employed in 1924 in the engineering inspection department of Western Electric, which was renamed Bell Laboratories in 1925 . In 1928 he switched to the development department for line technology , of which he became head in 1929. Quarles was then director of the development department for transmission technology at Bell Laboratories from 1940 to 1944 , which at the time concentrated on electronic systems for the military and, in particular, on radar technology .

He was then director of apparatus development and, in 1946, a member of the newly established electronics committee of the United Research and Development Authority of the US War Department . In 1949 he became chairman of this electronics committee, which was now part of the Defense Ministry , which was founded in 1947 .

In 1948 he was named vice president of Bell Laboratories before becoming vice president of Western Electric on March 1, 1948. At the same time he became president of Sandia Corporation , a subsidiary of Western Electric, which operated Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque on behalf of the US Atomic Energy Commission .

On October 1, 1953, he was appointed Secretary of State for Research and Development in the Department of Defense ( US Assistant Secretary of Defense ), and then in January 1954, together with Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson and Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks, he became chairman of the restructured Air Navigation Development Board ) appointed. In March 1954, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed him a member of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA).

President Eisenhower then appointed him US Secretary of the Air Force on August 11, 1955, took his oath of office as such on August 15, 1955 and was confirmed by the US Senate on February 16, 1956 .

On April 30, 1957, he finally became US Deputy Secretary of Defense and held this position until his death on May 8, 1959. After his death he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. The Quarles Range , a mountain range in Antarctica , is named in his honor .

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SURNAME Quarles, Donald A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quarles, Donald Aubrey (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Van Buren , Arkansas
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1959
Place of death Washington, DC