Stanley Rogers Resor
 Stanley Rogers Resor    (civil servant) | |
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| Born | December 5, 1917 |
| Died | April 17, 2012 (Age 94) |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | Groton School, Yale University |
| Member of | Committee on the Present Danger/Members, Scroll and Key |
United States Secretary of the Army during the Vietnam War.
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Stanley Rogers Resor was an American lawyer, military officer, and government official.[1][2]
Early life and education
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.[3]
Resor graduated from Yale University after attending the Groton School, and graduated from 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.
Career
After the war, Resor 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.
During the 1970s he served[4] as US ambassador to the MBFR (mutual and balanced force reduction) talks in Vienna, held between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Over time he grew critical of U.S. policy regarding nuclear weapons, and was a member of and spokesperson for the Arms Control Association of America in 1997 when it protested NATO expansion into Eastern Europe based on concerns about the reaction of the Russian government to encroachment by NATO.[5] He returned to Debevoise & Plimpton after he left government service and retired in 1991.
Personal life
Resor married Jane Pillsbury of the Pillsbury family in 1942 in a ceremony attended by John F. Kennedy and Cyrus Vance. They had seven sons. After Jane's death in 1994 he married Louise Mead Resor in 1999.[3]
Notes
References
- ↑ http://www.history.army.mil/books/sw-sa/SWSA-Fm.htm
- ↑ https://archive.is/20130104065229/http://www.khou.com/news/national/148032255.html
- ↑ a b Shapiro, T. Rees (April 20, 2012). "Stanley R. Resor, 94: Served as Army secretary during the Vietnam War". Washington Post.
- ↑ Personal meeting with Resor in late 1980s, Chalmers Hardenbergh, editor of the Arms Control Reporter. Thomas Graham, Disarmament Sketches, 2002.
- ↑ [1]
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