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|term_start=1960
|term_start=1960
|term_end=1969
|term_end=1969
|office2=United States Ambassador to<br> Trinidad and Tobago
|office2=United States Ambassador to<br> Trinidad and Tobago
|term_start2=1976
|term_start2=1976
'''Parents''': <br>
'''Parents''': <br>
Charles Spencer and Marie Dorothy Bel Fay
Charles Spencer and Marie Dorothy Bel Fay
|alma_mater=San Jacinto (Houston) High School
|alma_mater=San Jacinto High School (Houston)
[[Yale University]]}}
[[Yale Universitiy]]}}
'''Albert Bel Fay, Sr.''' (February 26, 1913 – February 29, 1992), was an [[United States|American]] [[business]]man who served briefly as the United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago and was a [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[politician]], whose involvement with the pary began in 1952 with the first presidential campaign of [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]].<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ffa20|title=[[Albert Bel Fay|Fay, Albert Bel, Sr.]]|publisher=''The Handbook of Texas'' on-line|author=Mary Smith Fay|accessdate=October 25, 2019}}</ref>
'''Albert Bel Fay, Sr.''' (February 26, 1913 – February 29, 1992), was an [[United States|American]] [[business]]man who served briefly as the United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago and was a [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[politician]], whose involvement with the pary began in 1952 with the first presidential campaign of [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]].<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ffa20|title=[[Albert Bel Fay|Fay, Albert Bel, Sr.]]|publisher=''The Handbook of Texas'' on-line|author=Mary Smith Fay|accessdate=October 25, 2019}}</ref>
By 1960, Fay had become Republican national committeeman and an automatic member of the [[Republican National Committee]]. At the[1964 [[Republican National Convention]] in [[San Francisco]], [[California]], Fay served on the Credentials Committee.<ref>[[Jack Crichton]], ''The Republican-Democrat Political Campaigns in Texas in 1964,'' self-published, 2004, p. 24.</ref> In 1969, Fay lost his national committeeman's position about the time that the [[attorney]] William Merritt Steger (1920-2004) was elected state party chairman to succeed Peter O'Donnell of [[Dallas]]. Steger had been the unsuccessful Republican [[governor|gubernatorial]] candidate in 1960 and was later a long-serving U.S. District Court [[judge]] based in [[Tyler, Texas|Tyler]] in Smith County in east Texas.
By 1960, Fay had become Republican national committeeman and an automatic member of the [[Republican National Committee]]. At the[1964 [[Republican National Convention]] in [[San Francisco]], [[California]], Fay served on the Credentials Committee.<ref>[[Jack Crichton]], ''The Republican-Democrat Political Campaigns in Texas in 1964,'' self-published, 2004, p. 24.</ref> In 1969, Fay lost his national committeeman's position about the time that the [[attorney]] William Merritt Steger (1920-2004) was elected state party chairman to succeed Peter O'Donnell of [[Dallas]]. Steger had been the unsuccessful Republican [[governor|gubernatorial]] candidate in 1960 and was later a long-serving U.S. District Court [[judge]] based in [[Tyler, Texas|Tyler]] in Smith County in east Texas.
==Opposing Jerry Sadler for land commissioner==
==Opposing Jerry Sadler for land commissioner==
In 1962 and 1966, Fay was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Texas land commissioner. In the latter race he won the endorsement of the [[AFL-CIO]] executive board. He lost both races to popular [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Gerald Anthony "Jerry" Sadler (1907-1982), who once had [[Governor|gubernatorial]] ambitions. In the 1962 campaign, Fay hailed [[U.S. President]] [[John F. Kennedy]] for signing into law the establishment of the Padre Island National Seashore north of [[Brownsville]].<ref name=bio/>
In 1962 and 1966, Fay was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Texas land commissioner. In the latter race he won the endorsement of the [[AFL-CIO]] executive board. He lost both races to popular [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Gerald Anthony "Jerry" Sadler (1907-1982), who once had [[Governor|gubernatorial]] ambitions. In the 1962 campaign, Fay hailed [[U.S. President]] [[John F. Kennedy]] for signing into law the establishment of the Padre Island National Seashore north of [[Brownsville]].<ref name=bio/>