Thomas S. Gates, Jr.

Thomas Sovereign Gates, Jr. ( born April 10, 1906 in German Town, Pennsylvania, † March 25, 1983 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician and from April 1, 1957 to June 8, 1959 United States Secretary of the Navy ( Navy Secretary ) as well as of 2 December 1959 to 20 January 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower Defense Secretary of the United States.

Life

The son of an investment banker in 1928 concluded his studies at the University of Pennsylvania and then worked in the investment bank Drexel and Company ( one of the predecessor companies of JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley ). During World War II he served in the U.S. Navy. Since 1953, he served as Under Secretary of the Navy 's second highest official in the Navy Office of the Defense Ministry. On April 1, 1957, he was appointed Navy Secretary. Of 2 December 1959 to 20 January 1961, he served as defense minister in the Cabinet Eisenhower. Gates was stronger than its predecessors involved in the development of security and defense doctrine of the United States. He supported President Eisenhower's efforts to replace the far more defensive containment plans against Soviet expansionism by a more aggressive rollback policy. During his tenure there came to shoot down of Francis Gary Powers over Soviet territory, which led to considerable diplomatic turmoil.

Gates was implicated by his German counterpart Franz Josef Strauss in the so-called Fibag affair. The then Minister of Defense Gates had the company Fibag ( Finanzbau Aktiengesellschaft ) is recommended to build in the Federal Republic of thousands of homes for the U.S. Army. At the Fibag among other Strauss himself was involved.

After the victory of Democrat John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election he laid on January 20, 1961 down from his position as Secretary of Defense. He was 1962 president of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company (1959 merger between JP Morgan & Co. and Guaranty Trust Company of New York), but also worked several times as a consultant for various presidents of the United States. He was from 1976 to 1977 as a successor to George Bush Head of the then United States Liaison Office ( Liaison Office ) in the People's Republic of China with the rank of ambassador.

Gates died in 1983. To honor the USS Thomas S. Gates, a guided missile cruiser of the Ticonderoga - class was named after the former Navy Secretary.

Germantown, Philadelphia Liaison officer Ambassadors of the United States Ticonderoga-class cruiser Benjamin Stoddert Robert Smith (Cabinet member) Paul Hamilton (politician) William Jones (statesman) Benjamin Williams Crowninshield Smith Thompson Samuel L. Southard John Branch Levi Woodbury Mahlon Dickerson James Kirke Paulding Abel P. Upshur David Henshaw John Y. Mason George Bancroft William Ballard Preston William Alexander Graham John P. Kennedy James C. Dobbin Isaac Toucey Gideon Welles Adolph E. Borie George M. Robeson Richard W. Thompson William H. Hunt William E. Chandler William Collins Whitney Benjamin F. Tracy Hilary A. Herbert John Davis Long William Henry Moody Paul Morton Charles Bonaparte (Attorney General) Victor H. Metcalf Truman Handy Newberry George von Lengerke Meyer Josephus Daniels Edwin Denby (politician) Curtis D. Wilbur Charles Francis Adams III Claude A. Swanson Charles Edison Frank Knox John L. Sullivan (United States Navy) Francis P. Matthews Robert B. Anderson Charles Thomas (Secretary of the Navy) Fred Korth Paul Robert Ignatius John Chafee J. William Middendorf Edward Hidalgo William L. Ball John Howard Dalton Richard Danzig Donald C. Winter Louis A. Johnson George Marshall Robert A. Lovett Charles Erwin Wilson Neil H. McElroy Robert McNamara Elliot Richardson James R. Schlesinger Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense) Frank Carlucci Dick Cheney William Cohen Donald A. Quarles James H. Douglas, Jr. David Packard Kenneth Rush Bill Clements Charles Duncan, Jr.

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