Joseph Stanley Kimmitt

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Person.png Joseph Stanley Kimmitt  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(soldier)
Joseph Stanley Kimmitt.jpg
BornApril 15, 1918
DiedDecember 7, 2004 (Age 86)
NationalityUS
Alma materUniversity of Montana.
Children • Mark Kimmitt
• Joseph Kimmitt
• Robert Kimmitt‎
Soldier, then politics, the military lobbyist

Joseph Stanley Kimmitt was the Secretary of the United States Senate and Secretary for the Majority from 1977 to 1981. Kimmitt also served in World War II and the Korean War as a United States Army lieutenant colonel. Kimmitt commanded a unit in the 8th Infantry Division in Germany from 1962 to 1964 before retiring from the Army as a colonel. He went to work under Mike Mansfield, U.S. Senator from Montana, before becoming Secretary. Upon leaving the Senate, Kimmitt then worked on the APACHE (Attack Helicopter) program.

Kimmitt later founded Kimmitt, Senter, Coates, & Weinfurter, Inc. (KSC&W), a Washington, D.C. lobbying firm. Stan Kimmitt died in 2004.

Personal Life

Joseph went to the University of Montana.

Three sons went into the military, all Field Artillery, including Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, who was Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, Major Joseph (Jay) Kimmitt, and Major General Robert Kimmitt, who was Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, both under President George W. Bush. J. Stanley Kimmitt and his wife, Eunice Kimmitt, also had three daughters, Kathleen Ross, Mary Kimmitt Laxton, and Judy Kimmitt Rainey and one other son, Thomas Patrick Kimmitt, who went to Georgetown University and then to medical school.

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