Frank Pace

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Frank Pace


3rd United States Secretary of the Army
In office April 12, 1950 – January 20, 1953
President	Harry S. Truman
Preceded by	Gordon Gray
Succeeded by	Earl D. Johnson
8th Director of the Office of Management and Budget
In office February 1, 1949 – April 12, 1950
President	Harry S. Truman
Preceded by	James E. Webb
Succeeded by	Frederick J. Lawton
Personal details
Born	Frank Pace, Jr. (1912-07-05)July 5, 1912 Little Rock, Arkansas
Died	January 8, 1988(1988-01-08) (aged 75) Greenwich, Connecticut
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Margaret Morris Janney
Children	Paula Pace Smith Priscilla Pace Penny Pace-Schott
Alma mater	Princeton University Harvard University

Frank Pace, Jr. (July 5, 1912 – January 8, 1988) was the 3rd United States Secretary of the Army and a business executive.^[1]

Biography

Pace (center) with the family of Medal of Honor recipient Cornelius H. Charlton in 1952.

Pace was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and attended The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania. In 1933 he graduated from Princeton University, and in 1936 from Harvard Law School.

Pace entered public service in 1936 as an assistant district attorney in Arkansas. He moved onto the Arkansas Revenue Department in 1938. In 1942 he was commissioned into the United States Army Air Forces as a second lieutenant where he served until 1945 in the Air Transport Command, Army Air Corps, reaching the rank of Major.

After leaving the Army in 1945 he returned to public service as an assistant to the United States Attorney General, then later as executive assistant to the Postmaster General. He then moved in 1948 to the Bureau of the Budget, first as assistant director and then as director.

On April 12, 1950 he was appointed Secretary of the Army, where he served until January 20, 1953. He went on to serve as chief executive officer of General Dynamics Corporation from 1953 until 1962. He was selected as the administrator-designate of the Emergency Transport Agency; part of a secret group created by President Eisenhower in 1958 that would serve in the event of a national emergency that became known as the Eisenhower Ten.

In 1964, Pace joined David Rockefeller to launch the International Executive Service Corps, which was established to help bring about prosperity and stability in developing nations through the growth of private enterprise. Pace went on to serve as president of the IESC.^[2]

Pace was the first chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, from 1968 until 1972.

Pace appeared on the cover of Time magazine on January 20, 1958.

Pace worked for the International Executive Service Corps. In the early 1970s he worked for the first Executive Service Corps (ESC) as a Management Support Organization (MSO) in New York.

Pace died of heart attack in Greenwich, Connecticut on January 8, 1988, at the age of 75.

References

↑ "Frank Pace Jr., Former Secretary Of the Army and Executive, Dies". New York Times. January 10, 1988. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
↑ Simon, Leonard S.; Pace, Frank (August 1971). "Corporate Viewpoints: Interviews with Top Managers: Interview with: Frank Pace, Jr.". Interfaces 1 (6). doi:10.2307/25058828. Retrieved 3 October 2013.

External links

A film clip "Longines Chronoscope with Frank C. Pace, Jr (July 18, 1952)" is available for free download at the Internet Archive

Political offices
Preceded by James E. Webb	Director of the Office of Management and Budget Served under: Harry S. Truman February 1, 1949 – April 12, 1950	Succeeded by Frederick J. Lawton
Government offices
Preceded by Gordon Gray	United States Secretary of the Army April 1950 – January 1953	Succeeded by Robert T. Stevens

U.S. Secretaries of War and the Army

U.S. Department
of War
(1789–1949)

Secretaries of War	B. Lincoln Knox Pickering McHenry Dexter Dearborn Eustis Armstrong Monroe W. Crawford Calhoun Barbour P. Porter Eaton Cass Poinsett Bell Spencer J. Porter Wilkins Marcy G. Crawford Conrad J. Davis Floyd Holt S. Cameron Stanton Schofield Rawlins Belknap A. Taft J. Cameron McCrary Ramsey R. Lincoln Endicott Proctor Elkins Lamont Alger Root W. Taft Wright Dickinson Stimson Garrison Baker Weeks D. Davis Good Hurley Dern Woodring Stimson Patterson Royall

Assistant Secretaries of War	Scott Watson Tucker Wolcott Dana Eckert Grant Doe Meiklejohn Sanger Oliver Breckinridge Ingraham Crowell Williams Wainwright D. Davis MacNider Hurley Payne Woodring L. Johnson Patterson McCloy Petersen

U.S. Department
of the Army
(1949–present)

Secretaries of the Army	Royall Gray Pace Stevens Brucker Stahr Vance Ailes Resor Froehlke Callaway Hoffmann C. Alexander Marsh Stone West Caldera White Harvey Geren McHugh

Under Secretaries of the Army	Draper Gray Voorhees A. Alexander Bendetsen E. Johnson Slezak Finucane Milton Ailes Ignatius Resor McGiffert Beal BeLieu Staudt Augustine LaBerge Ambrose Stone Shannon Reeder Walker Rostker Dahlberg Brownlee Geren Ford Westphal Carson Murphy

Directors of the United States Office of Management and Budget

Dawes Lord Roop Douglas D W Bell Smith Webb Pace Lawton Dodge Hughes Brundage Stans D E Bell Gordon Schultze Zwick Mayo Shultz Weinberger Ash Lynn Lance McIntyre Stockman Miller Wright Darman Panetta Rivlin Raines Lew Daniels Bolten Portman Nussle Orszag Lew Burwell Donovan

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 23680131 LCCN: n88027492

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Frank Pace

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