Paul Robert Ignatius

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Paul Robert Ignatius (1964)

Paul Robert Ignatius (born November 11, 1920 in Glendale , California ) is a retired American entrepreneur and business manager . He was among other Navy Secretary ( Secretary of the Navy ).

biography

Ignatius, who came from an Armenian immigrant family, first studied at the University of Southern California , where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and there also became a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Association . During the Second World War he did his military service in the US Navy and was last promoted to lieutenant at sea . After the end of the war, he completed a postgraduate degree in business administration at the Business School of Harvard University and completed this with a Master of Business Administration (MBA). He later became an entrepreneur and founded Hardbridge House, Inc. , a Boston- based business consulting and research firm .

In 1961 he was initially assistant to the Army Secretary of State ( Assistant Secretary of the Army ) for installations and logistics . In February 1964, he was the successor of Stephen Ailes Deputy Army Secretary ( Under Secretary of the Army ) and held this position almost ten months to its replacement by Stanley Rogers Resor in December 1964. After that, he was assistant to the defense minister ( Assistant Secretary of Defense ) for installations and logistics. On September 1, 1967, he was appointed Secretary of the Navy by US President Lyndon B. Johnson . He held this position until the end of Johnson's tenure on January 24, 1969.

He then served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Logistic Management Institute and Chairman, President and CEO of the Air Transport Association . Later, he was president of the newspaper Washington Post and executive vice president of The Washington Post Company . He was later also a trustee of the George C. Marshall Foundation . In 2006 he published his autobiography , On Board: My Life in the Navy, Government, Business .

His son David Ignatius is a journalist and columnist for the Washington Post .

On July 27, 2019, the US Navy put the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer named after him , the USS Paul Ignatius , into service.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul R. Ignatius: On Board. My Life in the Navy, Government, Business. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis MD 2006, ISBN 1-591-14381-0 .