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James Forrestal
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United States Navy officer and civil servant, Undersecretary of the Navy (1892-1949)
OverviewAI-generated
James Forrestal was an American male who worked as a military officer, banker, politician, and diarist. He served in the United States Navy and the United States Navy Reserve, holding the rank of lieutenant. His political career included positions as United States Secretary of Defense, United States Secretary of the Navy, and Under Secretary of the Navy. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Forrestal was educated at Dartmouth College and Princeton University. He participated in World War I and received the Distinguished Service Medal and the Medal for Merit. He authored works including *The Forrestal Diaries*, *Secretary of the Navy, 1944-1947, and first Secretary of Defence, 1947-1949*, and *Will we choose naval suicide again?*. He was born in 1892 and died in 1949. He died by suicide in Bethesda and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1892
- Died
- 1949
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Address by Secretary of the Navy [James Forrestal] before the 48th National Encampment, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
- Diaries of James V Forrestal, 1944-1949
- The Forrestal Diaries
- Diaries of James V Forrestal, 1944-1949, Secretary of the Navy, 1944-1947, and first Secretary of Defence, 1947-1949
- Will we choose naval suicide again?
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 84,647x
- Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 68,217x
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,769x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,423x
- Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,702x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “King had the brains, all right, but I hated his guts.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- President
- Harry S. Truman
- Preceded by
- Office established , ( Kenneth Royall as Secretary of War )
- Succeeded by
- Louis A. Johnson
- Born
- James Vincent Forrestal , ( 1892-02-15 ) February 15, 1892, Matteawan, New York , U.S.
- Died
- May 22, 1949 (1949-05-22) (aged 57), Bethesda, Maryland , U.S.
- Resting place
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Party
- Independent
- Spouse
- Josephine Ogden Stovall ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1926 )
- Children
- 2, including Michael
- Education
- Dartmouth College Princeton University
- Allegiance
- United States
- Branch service
- United States Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant
- Battles wars
- World War I
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was the last cabinet-level United States secretary of the Navy and the first United States secretary of defense.
Forrestal came from a very strict middle-class Irish Catholic family. He was a successful financier on Wall Street before becoming Undersecretary of the Navy in 1940, shortly before the United States entered the Second World War. He became Secretary of the Navy in May 1944 upon the death of his superior, Col. Frank Knox. President Franklin D. Roosevelt requested that Forrestal take the lead in building up the Navy. In 1947, after the end of the war, President Harry S. Truman appointed him the first secretary of the newly created Department of Defense. Forrestal was intensely hostile to the Soviet Union, fearing Communist expansion in Europe and the Middle East. Along with Secretary of State George C. Marshall, he strongly opposed the United States' support for the establishment of the State of Israel, fearing that this would alienate Arab nations which were needed as allies, and whose petroleum reserves were vital for both military and civilian industrial expansion.
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