Smith, Bromley K. (Bromley Keables), 1911-1987

Bromley Smith was born April 21, 1911 in Muscatine, Iowa. He was a graduate of Stanford University and attended the Zimmern Institute School in Geneva and the Sorbonne in Paris.

He joined the State Department in 1940 as a Foreign Service officer. He was vice consul in Montreal and third secretary of the Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia. He returned to Washington in 1945, carrying out staff assignments in the Secretary of State's office and taking part in international conferences after World War II.

In 1953, President Eisenhower appointed Mr. Smith to the National Security Council staff. He became the council's executive secretary in the Kennedy Administration and continued in that position under President Johnson. In his capacity as executive secretary, he kept track of the NSC daily business and was the executive manager. Mr. Smith compiled the NSC History on Deployment of Major US Forces to Vietnam, which is available at the Johnson Library. After his retirement in 1980, he became a consultant.

In 1964, he received the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service, the highest honor given to a career employee.

Bromley Smith died March 1, 1987, in Washington, DC.