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John McCone

John McCone
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Director of Central Intelligence
In office
November 29, 1961 – April 28, 1965
President John F. Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Deputy Charles P. Cabell
Marshall Carter
Preceded by Allen Dulles
Succeeded by William Raborn
Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission
In office
July 14, 1958 – January 20, 1961
President Dwight Eisenhower
Preceded by Lewis Strauss
Succeeded by Glenn T. Seaborg
United States Under Secretary of the Air Force
In office
June 15, 1950 – October 12, 1951
President Harry Truman
Preceded by Arthur S. Barrows
Succeeded by Roswell Gilpatric
Personal details
Born John Alexander McCone
(1902-01-04)January 4, 1902
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died February 14, 1991(1991-02-14) (aged 89)
Pebble Beach, California, U.S.
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Theiline McGee (m. 1962; his death 1991)
Education University of California, Berkeley (BS)

John Alexander McCone (January 4, 1902 – February 14, 1991) was an American businessman and politician who served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1961 to 1965, during the height of the Cold War.

John A. McCone was born in San Francisco, California on January 4, 1902. His father ran iron foundries across California, a business started in Nevada in 1860 by McCone's grandfather. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1922 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, beginning his career in Los Angeles' Llewellyn Iron Works.

He rose swiftly and in 1929, when several works merged to become the Consolidated Steel Corporation, he became executive vice president. He also founded Bechtel-McCone.

He also worked for the ITT corporation. In 1946, Ralph Casey of the General Accounting Office implied that McCone was a war profiteer, testifying that McCone and his associates of the California Shipbuilding Corporation had made $44,000,000 on an investment of $100,000." McCone's political affiliation was with the Republican Party.

A prominent industrialist, McCone also served for more than twenty years as a governmental adviser and official, including head positions at the Atomic Energy Commission in the Eisenhower Administration in 1958-1961 and with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Kennedy Administration and the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration in 1961-1965.


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