Forrestal, Josephine Ogden, 1899-1976 Person Authority Record

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Forrestal, Josephine Ogden, 1899-1976 Person Authority Record

1899-1976

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/17409722

Josephine Ogden Forrestal (b. 1899-d. January 1, 1976, Newport, Rhode Island), wife of first Secretary of Defense James Vincent Forrestal.

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United States. National Archives and Records Administration

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Forrestal, James, 1892-1949

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James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. Forrestal came from a very strict middle class Irish Catholic family. He was a successful financier on Wall Street before becoming Undersecretary of the Navy in 1940, shortly before the United States entered the Second World War. He became Secretary of the Navy in May 1944 upon the death of his superior, Frank Knox. Preside...