Scribner, Fred C., 1908-1994

Fred Clark Scribner was born on February 14, 1908 in Bath, Maine. He received an A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1930, and LL.B. from Harvard University in 1933. Following his graduation from law school, he was an associate at the law firm Cook, Hutchinson, Pierce, and Connell in Portland, 1933 to 1935, and a partner at that firm from 1935 to 1955. From 1946 to 1955 he also served as director, general counsel, vice president, and treasurer for Bates Manufacturing Company in Lewiston, Maine. From 1955 to 1957 he came to Washington and served as general counsel at the Department of the Treasury. He was Assistant Secretary of Treasury in 1957, and Under Secretary of the Treasury from 1957 to 1960. He helped to arrange to Nixon-Kennedy debate on national television in 1960. He was an active member of the Republican National Committee (RNC) throughout his adult life. He was a member of the Portland Republican City Committee from 1936 to 1940 and the Maine Republican State Committee from 1940 to 1950. He was a Republican National Committeeman from Maine, 1948 to 1956, and a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1940, 1944, 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968. He served as counsel to the RNC from 1952 to 1955 and 1961 to 1973, and general counsel on the arrangements committee for the Republican National Convention from 1956 to 1972. Scribner was also a Presidential Elector in 1976. He died on January 5, 1994 in Portland, Maine.