William Stuart Symington (June 26, 1901–December 14, 1988) was a businessman and political figure from Missouri. He served as the first Secretary of the Air Force (from 1947 until 1950) and was a Democratic United States Senator from Missouri (from 1953 until 1976.) Image File history File links Stuart_Symington. ... June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 188 days remaining. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics, sometimes this may include political scientists. ... Official language(s) English Capital Jefferson City Largest city Kansas City Largest metro area St. ... The Secretary of the Air Force is the civilian head of the United States Department of the Air Force, a component organization of the Department of Defense. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. ... The United States Senate is the upper house of the U.S. Congress, smaller than the United States House of Representatives. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...

Emerson Electric President

Symington was born in Amherst, Massachusetts and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from Yale University in 1923. At Yale he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and the Elihu Secret Society and served on the board of the Yale Daily News.   Amherst is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. ... Nickname: Motto: The Greatest City in America,[3] Get in on it. ... “Yale” redirects here. ... Delta Kappa Epsilon (ΔΚΕ; also pronounced D K E or Deke) is the oldest secret college mens fraternity of New England origin. ... Elihu is the fourth oldest senior society at Yale University. ... A front page of the Yale Daily News. ...

In 1923, Symington went to work for an uncle in the shops of the Symington Company of Rochester, New York, manufacturers of malleable iron products. Two years later he formed Eastern Clay Products, Inc., but in 1927 returned to the Symington Company as executive assistant to the president. Nickname: Motto: Rochester: Made for Living Location of Rochester in New York State Country United States State New York County Monroe Government  - Mayor Robert Duffy Area  - City  37. ...

Symington resigned in 1930 to become president of the Colonial Radio Corporation. In January 1935, he accepted the presidency of Rustless Iron and Steel Corporation, manufactures of stainless steel, but remained director of Colonial Radio Corporation.

When Rustless Iron and Steel Corporation was sold to the American Rolling Mill Company in 1937, Symington resigned and in 1938, accepted the presidency of Emerson Electric Company in St. Louis, Missouri. During World War II he transformed the company into the world's largest builder of airplane gun turrets. Emerson Electric Company was established in 1890 in St. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Turret (highlighted) attached to a tower on a baronial building in Scotland In architecture, a turret is a small tower that projects from the wall of a building, such as a medieval castle or baronial house. ...

First Secretary of the Air Force

Stuart Symington on the cover of Time on January 19th, 1948^[1]

He resigned Emerson in 1945 to join the administration of fellow Missourian Harry S. Truman. Image File history File links Symington-usaf. ... Image File history File links Symington-usaf. ... President Truman announces that Germany had surrendered (May 8 1945) Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953); as Vice President, he succeeded to the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. ...

His first positions were chairman of the Surplus Property Board (1945), administrator of the Property Administration (1945-1946) and Assistant Secretary of War for Air (1946-1947). The Secretary of War was a member of the United States Presidents Cabinet, beginning with George Washingtons administration. ...

On September 18, 1947, the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force was created and Symington became the first Secretary. Symington had a stormy term as he moved to give the United States Air Force (which previously had been part of the Army) respect. He had numerous public battles with Secretary of Defense James Forrestal. During his tenure there was a major debate and investigation into production of the Convair B-36 Bomber, which was the last of the piston powered bombers at the beginning of the jet age. Symington and others were eventually cleared of any wrongdoing. Major accomplishments included the Berlin Airlift and championing the United States Air Force Academy. Symington resigned in 1950 to protest lack of funding for the Air Force after the Soviets detonated their first atomic bomb. He remained in the administration as chairman of National Security Resources Board (1950-1951) and Reconstruction Finance Corporation Administrator (1951-1952). September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years). ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... The Secretary of the Air Force is the civilian head of the United States Department of the Air Force, a component organization of the Department of Defense. ... The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare branch of the United States armed forces and one of the seven uniformed services. ... The United States Secretary of Defense is the head of the United States Department of Defense, concerned with the armed services and The Secretary is a member of the Presidents Cabinet. ... James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was a Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. ... The Convair B-36 was a strategic bomber built by Convair for the United States Air Force, the first to have truly intercontinental range. ... The Soviet Union blocked Western rail and road access to West Berlin from June 24, 1948 - May 11, 1949. ... The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), located immediately north of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, United States, (), is an institution for the undergraduate education of officers for the United States Air Force. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ... The National Security Resources Board was a United States board created by the National Security Act of 1947. ... The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) was an independent agency of the United States government chartered during the administration of Herbert Hoover in 1932. ...

The Annie Lee Moss Case

On March 9, 1954, Ms. Annie Lee Moss went before Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his committee under the accusation that she was a communist spy. Evidence supporting this claim was supposedly given by an undercover FBI agent that could not be cross-examined by Ms. Moss or her counsel. As it became increasingly clear that a horrible mistake had been made, Sen. Symington proclaimed before the packed audience that he believed she was not a communist and had never been, receiving thunderous applause from those present. Annie Lee Moss was a middle-aged African American woman who was accused by Joseph McCarthy of being a Communist infiltrator in the Pentagon. ... March 9 is the 68th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (69th in leap years). ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Annie Lee Moss was a middle-aged African American woman who was accused by Joseph McCarthy of being a Communist infiltrator in the Pentagon. ... Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin between 1947 and 1957. ...

U.S. Senator and candidate for President

Stuart Symington on the cover of Time on November 24th, 1959^[1]

At the urging of his father in law James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr., a Republican U.S. Senator from New York, he ran as a Democrat for U.S. senate in Missouri in 1952. Image File history File links Symington-1960. ... Image File history File links Symington-1960. ... James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. ... The Republican Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States of America, along with the Democratic Party. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States, the other one being the Republican Party. ...

He was elected in the 1952 and re-elected in 1958, 1964 and 1970 and did not seek a fifth term. He resigned on December 27, 1976, four days before the end of his final term so that his Republican successor John Danforth would have more seniority in the Senate.  Republican holds  Republican pickups  Democratic holds  Democratic pickups The U.S. Senate election, 1952 was an election for the United States Senate which coincided with the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower to the presidency by a large margin. ...  Republican holds  Republican pickups  Democratic holds  Democratic pickups The U.S. Senate election, 1958 was an election for the United States Senate which occurred in the middle of President Dwight D. Eisenhowers second term. ...  Republican holds  Republican pickups  Democratic holds  Democratic pickups The U.S. Senate election, 1964 was an election for the United States Senate which coincided with the election of President Lyndon Baines Johnson by an overwhelming majority. ...  Republican holds  Republican pickups  Democratic holds  Democratic pickups  Independent pickups  Conservative pickups The U.S. Senate election, 1970 was an election for the United States Senate which was a midterm election in the term of President Richard M. Nixon. ... December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (362nd in leap years). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... John Danforth John Claggett Danforth (born September 5, 1936), also referred to as Jack Danforth, is a former United States Ambassador to the United Nations and former Republican United States Senator from Missouri. ...

Symington was an especially prominent opponent of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, to the vexation of the latter, who nicknamed him "Sanctimonious Stu." Symington took a lead role in condemning McCarthy during the Army-McCarthy Hearings, capitalizing upon his prominence and expertise as a former Secretary of the Air Force. Joseph McCarthy This article is about the American politician. ... Early in 1954, the U.S. Army accused Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (Republican, Wisconsin), and his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, of pressuring the Army to give favorable treatment to former McCarthy aide and friend of Cohns, G. David Schine. ...

Symington ran in the 1960 presidential election and won the backing of former President Harry S. Truman, but eventually lost the nomination to Senator John F. Kennedy. Symington, unlike Kennedy or LBJ, refused to speak to segregated audiences in the South, and this hurt his chances. He was considered Kennedy's first choice for Vice President, but was dropped in favor of Texas Senator Lyndon B. Johnson in the politically tight race. He advised President Kennedy as a member of ExComm during the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Presidential electoral votes by state. ... President Truman announces that Germany had surrendered (May 8 1945) Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953); as Vice President, he succeeded to the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. ... This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Counties/Parishes/Boroughs, Cities, and Towns Other countries Politics Portal      The Vice President of the United States is the first in the presidential... Official language(s) No Official Language See languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 261,797 sq mi (678,051 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ... “LBJ” redirects here. ... The Executive Committee of the National Security Council (commonly referred to as simply the Executive Committee or ExComm) was a body of U.S. officials that convened to advise President John F. Kennedy during the fateful days of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. ... Small TextThe Cuban Missile Crisis was a bitch ass confrontation during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States in Cuba. ...

During Symington's tenure in the Senate, he was known as an advocate for a strong national defense. He was also a strong supporter of the Air Force Academy and, in fact, helped establish it. Symington was also committed to constituent services, answering letters from Missouri citizens both important, trivial, and sometimes even zany. As an example, Symington once formally requested a report from military sources regarding the possible existence of subterranean superhumans which one of his constituents had become concerned about after reading a fiction book and mistaking it for non-fiction. This and Symington's other Senatorial correspondence and papers were donated to the Western Historical Manuscripts Collection (on the University of Missouri campus) in 2002, and are now available to the general public. The University of Missouri–Columbia is a public land-grant university and is Missouris largest university and public research institution. ...

His son James W. Symington served in the U.S. House from Missouri's Second Congressional District from 1969 to 1977. His cousin Fife Symington was Governor of Arizona from 1991 to 1997. His grandson Stuart Symington, of the same name, is in the U.S. State Department and is currently serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Djibouti. James Wadsworth Symington (born 1927) is a U.S attorney and politician who served as U.S. Representive (1969-1977) representing Missouri. ... Seal of the House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives (or simply the House) is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress, the other being the Senate. ... A congressional district is an electoral constituency that elects a single member of a congress. ... Merge with Fife Symington III. John Fife Symington III (born August 12, 1945 in New York City) was the Republican governor of the U.S. state of Arizona from 1991 until his resignation in 1997. ... This is a list of Governors of Arizona: See also Governors of Arizona Territory Categories: Lists of United States governors | Governors of Arizona ... The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. ...

He died in New Canaan, Connecticut and is buried in a crypt in Washington National Cathedral. New Canaan is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Stamford, on the Five Mile River. ... Washington National Cathedral has been the site of three presidential state funerals: for Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald W. Reagan, Gerald R. Ford and a presidential burial in the cathedral: Woodrow Wilson. ...

References

1. ^ ^{a b} List of Time magazine covers with Stuart Symington

External links

• Official USAF biography