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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriWilliam Stuart (Stuart) SYMINGTON
(1901-1988)
Senate Years of Service:
1953-1976Party: DemocratSYMINGTON, William Stuart
(Stuart), (father of James Wadsworth Symington, son-in-law
of James Wadsworth), a Senator from Missouri; born in Amherst,
Hampshire County, Mass., June 26, 1901; soon after his birth the
family moved to Baltimore, Md.; attended the public schools;
enlisted as a private in the United States Army at seventeen years
of age and was discharged as a second lieutenant; graduated from
Yale University in 1923; reporter on a Baltimore newspaper; moved
to Rochester, N.Y., and worked as an iron moulder and lathe
operator 1923-1926, studying mechanical and electrical engineering
at night and by correspondence; executive with several radio and
steel companies 1926-1937; moved to St. Louis, Mo., and became
president of the Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co. 1938-1945;
chairman, Surplus Property Board 1945; Surplus Property
Administrator 1945-1946; Assistant Secretary of War for Air
1946-1947; first Secretary of the Air Force 1947-1950; chairman of
National Security Resources Board 1950-1951; Reconstruction Finance
Corporation Administrator 1951-1952, from which office he resigned
to run for nomination as United States Senator; elected as a
Democrat to the United States Senate in 1952; reelected in 1958,
1964 and 1970 and served from January 3, 1953, until his
resignation on December 27, 1976; was not a candidate for
reelection in 1976; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination in 1960; lived in New Canaan, Ct., until
his death, December 14, 1988; interred in a crypt in Washington
National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Scribner Encyclopedia of
American Lives; Wellman, Paul. Stuart Symington: Portrait of
a Man With a Mission. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1960;
Olson, James C. Stuart Symington: A Life. Columbia:
University of Missouri Press, 2003.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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