Fred Korth

Frederick Herman "Fred" Korth ( born September 9, 1909 in Yorktown, DeWitt County, Texas, † September 14, 1998 in El Paso, Texas) was an American lawyer and politician, who from 1962 to 1963 as Secretary of State of the United States Navy officiated.

Life

Fred Korth grew up as the son of a banker and rancher on the family estate in Karnes County. After visiting the Brackenridge High School, he received his first degree from the University of Texas at Austin, before the legal examination at the George Washington University in Washington DC followed. During his time in the federal capital, he met his future first wife, who was also from Texas.

After returning to his home state Korth first practiced as a lawyer in Fort Worth. During the Second World War, he then served by an officer's training in Miami Beach in an air transport unit of the Army Air Forces. He rose to lieutenant colonel and retired in January 1946 from active service. Subsequently, he was president of the Continental National Bank, before he joined the government service under President Harry S. Truman took over the post of Assistant Secretary in the Department of the Army.

1961 President John F. Kennedy nominated him. Than new head of the Department of the Navy The previous incumbent, John Connally had resigned to run for the governorship of Texas. Korth joined its successor on January 4, 1962, until his resignation on November 1, 1963 in this post. During this time he came into conflict with Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara; which focused among other things, the exchange of strategic responsibility for the Middle East and India by the Navy to the Army. In addition, it is a conflict of interest in the awarding of a contract for several billion dollars to the General Dynamics Corporation was accused in Fort Worth; a congressional committee assessed the allegations as unfounded.

After the end of his tenure, Fred Korth was working as a lawyer again. He worked for a law firm in Washington and went until December 1997 with 88 years in retirement. In September of the following year, he died at his home in El Paso shortly after his 89th birthday cancer.

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