Frederick Trubee Davison
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Frederick Trubee Davison (February 7, 1896 – November 21, 1976), usually known as F. Trubee Davison, was the Director of Personnel for the Central Intelligence Agency
He was the brother-in-law of Artemus Gates and the son of Henry P. Davison. Davison attended Groton School, Yale University, graduating in 1919. He was a member of the Skull & Bones Society.[1][2][3] Davison was the founder of the First Yale Unit, which is considered to be the first naval air reserve unit. Trubee was severely injured in a training accident and never saw combat, but was active in unit activities throughout the war. He was on the cover of Time Magazine for the August issue in 1925. [1]
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[edit] Political Life
He was a Republican member from Nassau County of the New York State Assembly from 1922 to 1926. He was Assistant U.S. Secretary of War. In 1932, he ran for Lieutenant Governor of New York with William J. Donovan, but they were defeated in a landslide by Democrats Herbert H. Lehman and M. William Bray. He was an alternate delegate to the 1940 Republican National Convention.
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- ^ Alexandra Robbins, Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power, Little, Brown and Company, 2002, page 108, 187.
- ^ Kathrin Day Lassila and Mark Alden Branch, "Whose Skull and Bones?", Yale Alumni Magazine, May/June 2006
- ^ Marc Wortman, The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys who Fought the Great War and Invented America's Airpower. New York : Public Affairs, 2006. ISBN 1586483285
[edit] External links
- "Crime Chairman", Time, Aug. 24, 1925
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New York State Assembly, Nassau County 2nd District 1922–1926 |
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Republican Party Nominee for Lieutenant Governor of New York 1932 |
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