Henry L. Garrett

Henry L. Garrett (1987)

Henry Lawrence Garrett III (born June 24, 1939 in Washington, DC ) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of State for the United States from 1989 to 1992 .

Life

Henry Garrett was born in the federal capital Washington and grew up in Miami . He attended the University of Miami , where he studied industrial engineering. At the University of West Florida , he received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and at the University of San Diego the Juris Doctor . In 1961 he joined the United States Navy , where he was trained as a machinist for submarines. After he had completed flight training, he was appointed officer of a naval aviation unit in April 1964 . As a pilot of a maritime patrol , he flew missions in the Vietnam War, among other things . In 1972 he moved to the Judge Advocate General's Corps , where he held the rank of commander . From 1974 to 1978 he served as a military attorney and legal advisor to the Commander of the Submarine Forces with the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor . From 1979 he worked in the civil law department of the Judge Advocate General's Corps in Washington. During this time he was involved in creating the federal guidelines for the Ethics in Government Act .

In February 1981, shortly after President Ronald Reagan took office , Garrett was appointed Assistant to the White House Legal Adviser , after which he resigned from the Navy. He was later employed in the White House as the President's Executive Assistant ; he also served as COO of Synthetic Fuels Corporation , a state-owned company promoting the manufacture of synthetic fuels. He then became regional director for Seattle at the federal agency's Merit Systems Protection Board . In 1983 he returned to Washington as Deputy Legal Advisor. In February 1986, he took over the position of General Counsel in the US Department of Defense . President Reagan appointed him in May 1987 to succeed James F. Goodrich as Deputy Head of the Department of the Navy ( Under Secretary of the Navy ). After confirmation by the US Senate , he was able to take up this office on August 6, 1987.

President George Bush named Henry Garrett as the new Secretary of the Navy in May 1989 after appointing his predecessor, William L. Ball, to a state oversight body. Garrett held this post for most of George Bush's presidency before he called for his resignation in 1992. The reason was public allegations made by 87 female naval officers who accused their male colleagues of sexual assault. The Secretary of State for the Navy complied and resigned on June 26, 1992. Under Secretary J. Daniel Howard took office on a temporary basis for two weeks before the named successor Sean O'Keefe took office. Henry Garrett did not hold a public position as a result.

Web links

• Biography at Naval War College

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History: Navy, US