John T. Connor

John T. Connor

John Thomas "Jack" Connor (born November 3, 1914 in Syracuse , New York , † October 6, 2000 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American manager and politician .

biography

Connor first became head of the legal department of the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) under the direction of Vannevar Bush in 1942 . This department also included the establishment of a research program and the manufacture of penicillin . During World War II he served as an intelligence officer in the United States Marine Corps in the Pacific . After his return he became a manager at the pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. , where he rose to President and CEO in 1955 .

On 18 January 1965 it called US President Lyndon B. Johnson as trade minister ( Secretary of Commerce ) in his Cabinet . His tenure there was the release of several authorities of the Ministry within the competence of the newly created Ministry of Transport ( Department of Transport ) under Alan Stephenson Boyd . On January 31, 1967, he resigned as Minister of Commerce on the one hand because of differences of opinion with President Johnson, in particular because of his incipient negative attitude to the Vietnam War .

Another reason for his resignation was to take over as President of Allied Chemical Corp. He later served as Chairman and CEO of Allied Chemical, later AlliedSignal, until 1979. In the 1970s he continued his engagement against the Vietnam War as chairman of the Committee of Business Executives against the Vietnam War .

Web links

• John T. Connor in the nndb (English)
• John T. Connor at the University of Virginia Miller Center of Public Affairs (English)
• rulers.org