Manly Fleischmann
| Manly Fleischmann | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 15, 1908 Hamburg, New York |
| Died | March 25, 1987 Buffalo, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Attorney |
Manly Fleischmann (1908-1987) was an attorney whose record of public service included positions in the Democratic Administration of Harry S Truman and in the Republican Administration of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. He served as President Truman's Defense Production Administrator for the Korean War. At the request of Gov. Rockefeller, he chaired the New York State Commission on the Quality, Cost and Financing of Elementary and Secondary Education (known as "The Fleischmann Commission").
Manly Fleischmann was born July 15, 1908 in Hamburg, New York (a suburb of Buffalo) to a prominent Buffalo trial lawyer, Simon Fleischmann. The family had ties to both Judaism and Quakerism. The Fleischmann boys --of whom there were six (no daughters)-- remembered of their childhood that a Quaker idiom (that is, use of 'thee' and 'thou') was the household vernacular when they were growing up. Manly Fleischmann never practiced Judaism, however; instead, he and his future wife, Lois, worshiped and raised their family in the Episcopal Church.
Fleischmann received his undergraduate training at Harvard College, graduating in 1929 and took his law degree at the University of Buffalo in 1933.
Buffalo native John Lord O'Brian, a friend of Simon Fleischmann, was General Counsel to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's War Production Board during World War II. He named Manly Fleischmann his Assistant General Counsel. Fleischmann remained in this post until 1943, when he joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS, predecessor of the present Central Intelligence Agency), serving as a united States Navy officer detached to a British Army unit involved in espionage in Japanese-occupied Burma. For his service, he was later decorated by both the U.S. and Thai governments.
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