Stanley Rogers Resor
| Stanley Rogers Resor | |
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| 9th United States Secretary of the Army | |
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In office July 2, 1965 – June 30, 1971 |
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| President | Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon |
| Preceded by | Stephen Ailes |
| Succeeded by | Robert F. Froehlke |
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December 5, 1917 New York City, New York |
| Died | April 17, 2012 (aged 94) Washington, D.C. |
| Spouse(s) | Jane Lawler Pillsbury (1942–1994), Louise Mead (1999–2012) |
| Alma mater | Yale University (1939, 1942) |
| Occupation | lawyer, military officer, government official |
Stanley Rogers Resor (December 5, 1917 – April 17, 2012) was an American lawyer, United States military officer, and government official.
Born in New York City, he was the son of Helen Lansdowne Resor and Stanley B. Resor (pronounced REE-zor), president of the J. W. Thompson advertising agency and one of the originators of the modern advertising industry. While still a teenager he changed his name from Stanley Burnet Resor Jr. to Stanley Rogers Resor. The elder Resor graduated from Yale University in 1901, and his son followed him there after attending the Groton School, and graduated from Yale in 1939, where he was tapped to join Scroll and Key. He went on to Yale Law School where he was a contemporary of Sargent Shriver (also a member of Scroll and Key), Gerald Ford, and Cyrus Vance (who preceded him as Secretary of the Army and himself was a member of Scroll and Key and in the same year at Yale). Resor's education was interrupted by service as an Army officer in World War II (1942–1946), where he was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart.
After the war he went to work on Wall Street, and was made partner in the prominent Debevoise & Plimpton law firm. In 1965 during the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson appointed him Secretary of the Army and he remained in the position under President Richard Nixon until 1971. In 1984, he was awarded the United States Military Academy's Sylvanus Thayer Award.
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