Roswell Gilpatric
| Roswell Gilpatric | |
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| 10th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense | |
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In office January 24, 1961 – January 20, 1964 |
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| President |
John F Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Preceded by | James H. Douglas, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Cyrus Vance |
| United States Under Secretary of the Air Force | |
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In office October 19, 1951 – February 5, 1953 |
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| President | Harry S. Truman |
| Preceded by | John A. McCone |
| Succeeded by | James H. Douglas, Jr. |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric April 11, 1906 Brooklyn, New York City, New York |
| Died | March 15, 1996 (aged 89) New York City, New York |
| Resting place | Mount Desert Island, Maine |
| Alma mater | Yale Law School (J.D.) |
Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric (November 4, 1906 – March 15, 1996) was a prominent New York City corporate attorney and government official who served as Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1961–64, when he played a pivotal role in the high-stake strategies of the Cuban Missile Crisis, advising President John F. Kennedy as well as Robert McNamara and McGeorge Bundy on dealing with the Russian nuclear missile threat. Gilpatric later served as Chairman of the Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation in 1964.
Gilpatric was born in 1906 in Brooklyn, the son of Wall Street attorney Walter Hodges Gilpatric, an Amherst College graduate born in Warren, Rhode Island, and the former Charlotte Elizabeth Leavitt, a graduate of Mount Holyoke College born to American missionary parents in Osaka, Japan. Charlotte Leavitt was a college classmate and lifelong friend of Frances Perkins, the first woman appointed to a Presidential Cabinet. On his mother's side Roswell Gilpatric was related to Harvard College astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt, whose father was the Congregational minister George Roswell Leavitt.
Gilpatric attended Poly Preparatory Country Day School from 1917 to 1920, when the family moved to White Plains, where he attended high school for two years before transferring to the Hotchkiss School, where he was a member of the remarkable class of 1924 that included Charles W. Yost, Paul Nitze, and Chapman Rose. His duties as a scholarship boy, which included waiting on tables and cleaning rooms, kept down his participation in extracurricular activities at Hotchkiss, but he was a member of the Cum Laude Society.
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