Stuart Symington
William Stuart Symington, Jr. (/ˈsaɪmɪŋtən/; June 26, 1901 – December 14, 1988) was an American businessman and politician from Missouri. He served as the first Secretary of the Air Force from 1947 to 1950 and was a Democratic United States Senator from Missouri from 1953 to 1976.
Education and business career
Symington was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, the son of Emily Haxall (née Harrison) and William Stuart Symington, Sr. His father, who received a Ph.D in French literature, was a romance languages professor at Stanford and Amherst College before pursuing a law career and becoming a federal judge in Baltimore, Maryland. His mother, a direct descendant of the influential colonist and presidential ancestor Benjamin Harrison, came from a wealthy family in Virginia. Symington grew up in Baltimore, and was the oldest of his five brothers and sisters. Symington attended Roland Park Public School and the Gilman School, a private all-male preparatory school in Baltimore's Roland Park neighborhood. He graduated from Baltimore City College in 1918, and at the age of 17, Symington enlisted in the United States Army as a private first class during World War I.
Stuart Symington (cricketer)
Stuart Johnston Symington, born at Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, on 16 September 1926 and died at Hereford on 11 December 2009, played first-class cricket for Leicestershire as an amateur in 1948 and 1949. He was captain of the Leicestershire side in 1949. After little more than a year in full-time cricket, he resumed a career in the Army.
Cricket career
A right-handed middle-order batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler, Symington was educated at Canford School and played for Leicestershire in wartime matches. He made his first-class debut in a couple of matches in the 1948 season. He took four wickets in his first match against Hampshire, and this was followed by scores of 21 and 40 in the second game, which was against Essex. In 1948, Leicestershire had appointed the professional, Les Berry, as captain, only the second appointment of a professional by one of the first-class counties since the 1890s (the previous instance had also been by Leicestershire, when Ewart Astill was appointed captain for the 1935 season). In both 1935 and 1948, the appointment had been necessitated because no amateur was available to lead the team: Wisden also reported that "possibly affected by the cares of captaincy", Berry "did not reproduce the form of previous years".
Podcasts:
Famous quotes by Stuart Symington:
Latest News for: stuart symington
- 1