Edward Hidalgo

Edward Hidalgo ( born October 12, 1912 in Mexico City as Eduardo Hidalgo, † January 21, 1995 in Fairfax, Virginia) was an American lawyer and politician of Mexican origin, who served as Secretary of State of the United States Navy from 1979 to 1981.

Lawyer and officer

Born in Mexico Eduardo Hidalgo came even as a little boy in the United States. His parents settled in 1918 in New York down; some years later he became a U.S. citizen and anglicized his first name to Edward. After leaving school, he earned a bachelor's degree in 1933 at Holy Cross College, 1936 JD from Columbia Law School. Subsequently, he worked from 1936 to 1937 as Court Clerk ( Law Clerk ) at the Federal Court of Appeals for the 2nd District Court.

After that, he was until 1942 a partner in a law firm before he entered government service, initially to 1943 worked as a legal adviser to the U.S. State Department, based in Montevideo. From 1943 to 1945, he then served as an officer of the Air Force Intelligence Service on the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. During this time he also served as a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve; moreover, he belonged to the Eberstadt Committee, gave a report to the Secretary of the Navy on efforts to Summary of U.S. forces in a common ministry. For his services to the Navy, he was awarded the Bronze Star and a Commendation Ribbon.

After he was still working as a special adviser to Minister of the Navy from 1945 to 1946, Hidalgo returned to the legal profession. He became a partner of the law firm Curtis, Mallet- Prevost, Colt & Mosle and took over the management of the store in his native Mexico City. There he founded his own firm in 1948 with the name Hidalgo, Barrera, Siqueiros & Torres Landa, whose senior partner he remained until 1965.

In government services

A short tenure as Special Advisor to the Secretary of State Marine joined until 1966. Then he was again a partner in a law firm whose interests he represented until 1972 in Europe. Subsequently he worked for a further time for the government: From 1972 to 1973 he was Special Advisor for Economic Affairs to the Director of the United States Information Agency, before he became General Counsel ( General Counsel ) of the Authority. Finally it U.S. President Jimmy Carter appointed in 1977 as Deputy Secretary of the Navy; On 24 October 1979 he took over as successor to W. Graham Claytor, the management of the Authority, a position he held until the end of Carter's term of office on 20 January 1981. He lent his hand for the Navy to the increased recruitment of Hispanics.

As a result, Hidalgo worked as a corporate lawyer until he died in a hospital in Fairfax in 1995.