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 1908 - 1996 (88 years)
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| Name |
Arthur Alden Kimball |
| Birth |
1908 |
Washington, DC  |
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Male |
| Death |
1996 |
| Person ID |
I6122 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
7 Oct 2007 |
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was In pres. Eisenhower's White House Staff in Wash D.C.
His wife, Betty, filed a collection of his unpublished writings in the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library in Nov 1997. She included a summary of his life:
Kimball entered government service in 1928 when he went to work for the Commerce Department. Over the next several years he worked for the National Recovery Administration and the Social Security Board. At the start of World War II he joined the army and became a budget officer in the War Department. He later served as Chief of Administration for the U.S. prosecution team at the Nazi war crimes trials in Nurnberg, Germany.
After the war Kimball worked in the State Department and helped George Marshall establish the Economic Cooperation Administration for administering the Marshall Plan. Kimball later served as head of the International Information Administration, a branch of the State Department.
When the IIA became a separate agency, the U.S. Information Agency, in 1953, President Eisenhower allowed Kimball to serve as acting director until the first full-time director, Theodore Streibert, could take office. Kimball then joined the White House staff as staff director of the President’s Advisory Committee on Government Organization (PACGO). He assisted the committee chairmen, Nelson Rockefeller and Arthur Flemming, and managed the work of the committee’s professional staff.
In November 1960 President Eisenhower appointed Kimball to the National Labor Relations Board. The Senate did not confirm the appointment and Kimball left government service after John F. Kennedy became president. He practiced law in Washington, DC, for 5 years, and then returned to government service in 1966. He worked for the Social Security Administration and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. From 1972 to 1974 he was Director of International Training at the Agency for International Development. In December 1974 he retired and moved to Florida where he became alumni officer at the Florida Institute of Technology.
| email Oct 2007 |
I am Patricia C. King Mendenhall, granddaughter of Helena M. and Arthur H. Kimball and daughter of Helena Melvin Kimball and Edward V. King. I wish to offer the following additions and corrections to your records. 17th Generation #26--Children of Arthur H. and Helena M. Kimball: i. Ruth Howland Kimball married Larry Larson. They had one child, Larrianne Larson (b. 6/14/40 / d. 2006). Following Larry’s death (as a pilot in Alaska), Ruth married Lewis Rogers, who was in the U.S. military in Alaska. They had two children: Elizabeth (Betsy) Rogers (b. 2/10/44) and Lewis Addison (Tim) Rogers (b. 11/20/45). Ruth died in the 1970s. ii. Arthur Alden Kimball and his wife Betty had one child: Laurie Kimball (b. unknown). iii. Helena Melvin Kimball (my mother) married Edward Vincent King on 12/4/43. She died on 8/4/69. They had five children: Edward V. King, Jr. (b. 7/18/45), Helena Cecelia King (b. 6/16/47), Kathleen Melvin King (b. 7/18/48), Patricia Cotter King (b. 6/11/50), and William Arthur Kimball King (b. 8/25/51). iv. Lastly, Warren Kimball’s wife’s name was Eula (not Elva). He died about 2002, and she died some years earlier. I hope this information can be incorporated into the Kimball genealogy. |
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