- Roswell Gilpatric
Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric (
November 4 ,1906 –March 15 ,1996 ),Deputy Secretary of Defense , 1961-1964; Chairman, Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation, 1964.From the
Cravath, Swaine & Moore Firm History: Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric was bornNovember 4 ,1906 , inBrooklyn , N. Y., the son of Walter Hodges Gilpatric, born in Rhode Island, and Charlotte Leavitt Gilpatric, born to American parents in Osaka, Japan.After Attending Public School No. 102 in Brooklyn, Roswell attended Poly Preparatory Country Day School from 1917 to 1920, when the family moved to White Plains. There he attended the high school for two years and then went to
Hotchkiss School , graduating in 1924. His duties as a scholarship boy, which included waiting on tables and cleaning rooms, kept down his participation in extracurricular activities at Hotchkiss, but he was a member of theCum Laude Society .He graduated from
Yale University in 1928,Phi Beta Kappa ; and the Law School in 1931.During 1956 and 1957, Gilpatric was a member of the Rockefeller Brothers'
Special Studies Project .He participated in the in 506th meeting of the National Security Council in Washington DC, October 21, 1962, 2:30-4:50p.m. whose minutes can be viewed as part of the [http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/forrel/cuba/cuba038.htm Yale Law School Avalon Project] .
Gilpatric died on March 15, 1996, in New York, and was buried in Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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url=http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Archives+and+Manuscripts/fa_gilpatric.htm
title=Roswell L. Gilpatric
publisher=John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
* [http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/subject/bowdoin/honors/Gilpatric63.pdf Honorary Degree, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1963]
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