Sandy Trowbridge | |
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| 17thUnited States Secretary of Commerce | |
| In office January 19, 1967 – March 1, 1968 Acting: January 19, 1967 – June 14, 1967 | |
| President | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Preceded by | John T. Connor |
| Succeeded by | C. R. Smith |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Alexander Buel Trowbridge III (1929-12-12)December 12, 1929 |
| Died | April 27, 2006(2006-04-27) (aged 76) |
| Resting place | Arlington National Cemetery |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Nancey Horst (divorced)Ellie Hutzler |
| Children | 3, 2 stepchildren |
| Education | Princeton University (BA) |
Alexander Buel "Sandy" Trowbridge III (December 12, 1929 – April 27, 2006) was an American politician and businessman. He was theUnited States Secretary of Commerce from June 14, 1967, to March 1, 1968, in the administration ofPresidentLyndon B. Johnson.
Trowbridge was born on December 12, 1929, at 1:05 p.m. inEnglewood, New Jersey. He was the son ofAmerican University Professor ofRussian History Alexander Buel Trowbridge Jr., and the grandson of Alexander Buel Trowbridge, the former dean of theCornell University College of the Architecture (1897–1902).[citation needed] His grandmother Gertrude Mary Sherman was the great-great-granddaughter of American founding fatherRoger Sherman.[citation needed] His mother, the former Julie Chamberlain, who was the executive director of theWoodrow Wilson Foundation from 1942 to 1961.[1] Trowbridge's parents divorced, and he was raised by his mother.[2]
As a young man, Trowbridge attendedPhillips Academy inAndover, Massachusetts, in 1947, before graduating with an A.B. from theWoodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs atPrinceton University in 1951 after completing a senior thesis titled "The Spanish Loan. A Case Study of Executive-Congressional Relations in the Formulation and Control of American Foreign Policy."[3][4] AfterWorld War II, he worked with various reconstruction efforts. After working with the International Intern Program of the United Nations inLake Success, New York, he served in theKorean War in theMarine Corps.
Between 1954 and 1965, he was an oil businessman. In 1965, PresidentLyndon B. Johnson appointed him to serve as the Assistant Secretary of Commerce. On January 19, 1967, he became acting Secretary of Commerce, and in June of that year he becameU.S. Secretary of Commerce, a position he served in until March 1, 1968. He resigned to return to business, serving first as the President of theAmerican Management Association, in May 1968,[5] before the joining Allied Chemical as a Vice-Chairman of the Morristown, New Jersey–based parent company and the Chairman of their Canadian subsidiary, Allied Chemical Canada Ltd. of Pointe-Claire (QC).
He later served as head of theNational Association of Manufacturers from 1980 until 1989. In the early 1990s, he served as a member of theCompetitiveness Policy Council.
As Secretary of Commerce, he proposed to re-merge of theDepartment of Commerce and theDepartment of Labor.
Trowbridge died inWashington, D.C., on April 27, 2006, at the age of 76, after suffering fromLewy body dementia. He is buried at theArlington National Cemetery inArlington, Virginia.
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