Appointed last week by President Eisenhower as Secretary of the Interior: Frederick Andrew Seaton, 46, newspaper publisher, of Hastings, Neb.
Family & Early Years: Born Dec. 11, 1909 in Washington, D.C., where his father, Fay N. Seaton, was secretary to Kansas' Senator Joseph L. Bristow (who in 1910 appointed Dwight Eisenhower of Abilene to West Point). Went home to Kansas with his parents in 1915, when his father bought the daily Manhattan Mercury. Worked his way at Kansas State College in Manhattan, where he compiled a respectable scholastic average, but failed to graduate...
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