George E. Akerson
| George E. Akerson | |
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White House Press Secretary White House Appointments Secretary |
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In office March 4, 1929 – March 16, 1931 |
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| President | Herbert Hoover |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Theodore Joslin |
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George Edward Akerson September 5, 1889 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Died | December 21, 1937 (aged 48) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
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University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Allegheny College Harvard University (BA) |
George Edward Akerson (September 5, 1889 – December 21, 1937) was an American journalist and the first official White House Press Secretary.
Akerson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota and Allegheny College, taking classes in Science, Literature and Art. In 1910 Akerson started at Harvard University, later receiving a BA in Political Science in 1912.
Akerson married Harriet Blake, a Wellesley College graduate, on June 28, 1915. They had three sons.
During his collegiate years, Akerson worked summers at the Minneapolis Tribune. After graduating from Harvard, Akerson worked there full-time as a reporter, with the 1912 Democratic National Convention as one of his first assignments. The Tribune made Akerson its Washington correspondent in 1921.
While in Washington in the 1920s, Akerson advised the Republican Party on how to compete with the rising Non-Partisan League and Progressive movements in the Upper Midwest. That work brought Akerson to the attention of Herbert Hoover, who was then the Secretary of Commerce. Hoover had Akerson named as the secretary of the commission that ran the 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia, then hired Akerson as his private secretary.
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