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Frederick Andrew Seaton (December 11, 1909 – January 16, 1974) was an American newspaperman and politician. He represented the U.S. state of Nebraska in the U.S. Senate and served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior during Dwight D. Eisenhower 's administration. Early life.
Frederick Andrew Seaton was secretary of the interior under President Eisenhower from June 8, 1956, until January 20, 1961. Seaton graduated from Kansas State Agricultural College in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1931.
Jan 18, 1974 · MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 17 (AP) —Fred A. Seaton, Secretary of the Interior in the Administration of ‘President Dwight D. Eisenhower and a well‐known Midwest publisher, died last night hi a...
Museum Stories. Frederick A. Seaton. B: December 11, 1909 in Washington, D.C. D: January 16, 1974 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Frederick Andrew Seaton was born in Washington D.C. to Fay and Dorothea Seaton. At the time, his father was serving as assistant to U.S. Senator Joseph Bristow of Kansas.
As Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative and Public Affairs Seaton worked as liaison between the Army and the White House in preparing the Army’s case. Most of the papers in this subseries are working papers used in developing the case.
The Chronological File Series of the Fred Seaton Papers consists almost entirely of carbon copies (“flimsies”) of Seaton’s outgoing correspondence from 1953 to 1960, arranged chronologically.
seaton, fred a. Finding Aids U.S. Senator, Nebraska, 1951; member, personal advisory staff to Dwight D. Eisenhower during 1952 campaign; Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs, 1953-55; Administrative Assistant to the President, February, 1955; Deputy Assistant to the President, June, 1955; Secretary of the Interior, 1956-61 ...
