Alexander Trowbridge

Alexander Buel Trowbridge III ( born December 12, 1929 in Englewood, New Jersey, † April 27, 2006 in Washington DC) was an American businessman and politician, who, under President Lyndon B. Johnson for a few months, the Office of the U.S. Trade Minister held.

After attending Phillips Academy in 1948 Trowbridge took part in the international internship program of the United Nations, at his headquarters in Lake Success, New York, he was busy. In 1950, he worked as an intern for Congressman Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. The following year he earned his bachelor 's degree at Princeton, after which he entered the service of the CIA and as a member of the United States Marine Corps fought in the Korean War.

From 1954 Alexander Trowbridge worked in the oil business before he was appointed President Johnson in 1965 as Deputy Minister of Commerce ( Assistant Secretary of Commerce). On January 19, 1967, he took over after the resignation of John T. Connor acting head of the ministry, before he officially took up its successor as Minister of Commerce on 14 June of the same year. He tried unsuccessfully to obtain a union of his ministry with the Ministry of Labour. Already on 1 March 1968, he presented his post again available to pursue its business activities. He was two months later President of the American Management Association from 1976 to 1980, he served as vice chairman of a chemical company. From 1980 to 1990 he was standing in front of the National Association of Manufacturers.

Alexander Trowbridge, whose ancestors Roger Sherman, one of the founding fathers of the United States belonged to, died in 2006 in his hometown of Washington, and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

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