Pace, Frank, Jr., 1912-1988
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found: NUCMC data from Harry S. Truman Libr. for his Papers, 1946-53(Pace, Frank, 1912-; lawyer, govt. official, and corporate executive)
found: WWA 1974-75(Pace, Frank, Jr., corporation executive, b. 1912 in Little Rock, Ark.)
found: New York Times, 1/11/88(Frank Pace Jr., former secretary of the Army and executive, d. 1/8/88 in Greenwich, Conn.; survived by his wife, the former Margaret Morris Janney, of Philadelphia, and three daughters)
found: Wikipedia, October 30, 2013(Frank Pace; Frank Pace, Jr. (July 5, 1912-January 8, 1988) was the 3rd United States Secretary of the Army and a business executive; he graduated from Princeton University in 1933 and from Harvard University in 1936; Pace entered public service in 1936 as an assistant district attorney in Arkansas; he moved on to the Arkansas Revenue Department in 1938; in 1942 he was commissioned into the United States Army Air Forces as a second lieutenant where he served until 1945 in the Air Transport Command, Army Air Corps, reaching the rank of Major; after leaving the Army in 1945 he returned to public service as an assistant to the United States Attorney General, then later as executive assistant to the Postmaster General; he then moved in 1948 to the Bureau of the Budget, first as assistant director and then as director; on April 12, 1950 he was appointed Secretary of the Army, where he served until January 20, 1953; he went on to serve as chief executive officer of General Dynamics Corporation from 1953 until 1962; in 1964, Pace joined David Rockefeller in launching the International Executive Service Corp, then later served as the president of IESC; he was the first chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, from 1968 until 1972)
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1988-06-21: new
2013-11-01: revised
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