Frederick Trubee Davison

Frederick Trubee Davison (February 7, 1896 – 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 where he was a member of the Skull & Bones Society. [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, [http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2006_05/notebook.html "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] 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. [http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19250824,00.html]

Political Life

Republican. He was a member of New York state assembly from Nassau County 2nd District, 1922-26; candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York, 1932; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1940.

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* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,720818-1,00.html "Crime Chairman"] , "Time", Aug. 24, 1925