Randall, Clarence B. (Clarence Belden), 1891-1967

Clarence Belden Randall was born on March 5, 1891 in Newark Valley, New York. He received a B.A. from Harvard College in 1912, and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1915. He moved to Michigan to work in the law office of his cousin, William P. Belden. He was admitted to Michigan bar in 1915, and enlisted in Army officers' training program in May 1917. He was commissioned a first lieutenant in August 1917 and posted to Camp Custer, Michigan where he trained enlistees. On August 18, 1917 he married Emily Fitch Phelps. In July 1918 he was sent to France where he served at headquarters of 35th Division of Allied Expeditionary Force, and was promoted to captain in February 1919. He was discharged in April 1919. After the war, he returned to law practice with the firm Berg, Clancey, and Randall in Ishpeming, Michigan, 1919 to 1925. He left private law practice in 1925 and went on to serve in the following capacities: Assistant vice-president in charge of raw materials, Inland Steel Company, Chicago, 1925 to 1930; Vice President of Inland Steel, 1930 to 1948; Director, Inland Steel, 1935 to 1967; Steel consultant for Economic Cooperation Administration in Paris, 1948; President of Inland Steel, 1949 to 1953; member, Business Advisory Council, Department of Commerce, 1951 to 1957; Chairman of the Board of Inland Steel, 1953 to 1956; Chief of Special U.S. Economic Mission to Turkey, 1953; Chairman, Commission on Foreign Economic Policy, 1953 to 1954; Special Consultant to President Eisenhower on foreign economic policy, 1954 to 1956; Chief, Special Mission to Turkey, 1956; Chairman, Council on Foreign Economic Policy, and Special Assistant to the President, 1956 to 1961; Special emissary for President Kennedy to Ghana on the Volta River Project, 1961; Chairman, Presidential Panel to Review Federal Pay Schedules, 1962 to 1963; and Chairman, State Department advisory committee on international business problems, 1963. He also served as a trustee of member of the board of various institutions, including University of Chicago, trustee from 1936 to 1961; Chicago Natural History Museum, trustee from 1946 to 1961; and member, Harvard Board of Overseas, 1947 to 1953. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963. He died on August 4, 1967 in Winnetka, Illinois, where he maintained a summer home.

From the description of Randall, Clarence B. (Clarence Belden), 1891-1967 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10576097