SYMINGTON STUART

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP01-01773R000300110081-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2007
• Sequence Number: 81
• Content Type: BIO

Approved For Release 2007/02/28 :CIA-RDP01-017738000300110081-1
SYMINGTON, STUART, Democrat, of Creve Coeur, Mo.; born June
26, 1901, in Amherst, Mass. ; attended public schools in
Baltimore, Md. ; enlisted in the Army at 17; attended Yale, 1919-33;
started in steel business as a moulder; married to Evelyn Wadsworth,
daughter of Senator James W. Wadsworth; two sons,
became president of Emerson Electric Manufacturing
Co, of St. Louis; studied airplane armament for the War
Department in England in 1941; entered Government service July
16, 1945, serving successively as chairman of Surplus
Property Board; Assistant Secretary of War for Air; Secretary
of the Air Force; chairman of National Security Resources
Board; Administrator, Reconstruction Finance Corporation;
Elected United States Senator for Missouri on November 4, 1942,
for term ending January 3, 1959.
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