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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Frederick Andrew "Fred" Seaton
| image=Fred Seaton of NE.gif
| office=[[United States Senator]] for [[Nebraska
| term_start=December 10, 1951
| term_end=November 4, 1952
| preceded=[[Kenneth Wherry]]
| succeeded=Dwight Griswold
| office2=United States Secretary of the Interior
| president2=[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]
| term_start2=June 8, 1956
| term_end2=January 20, 1961
| preceded2=Douglas McKay
| succeeded2=[[Stewart L. Udall]]
| term_start2=December 10, 1951
| term_end2=November 4, 1952
| appointer2=Val Peterson
| preceded2=[[Kenneth Wherry]]
| succeeded2=Dwight Griswold
| occupation=[[Newspaper]] [[publisher]]
| birth_place=[[Washington, D.C.]]
| birth_date=December 11, 1909
| death_date=January 16, 1974 (aged 64)
| death_place=[[Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]]
| resting_place=Parkview Cemetery in Hastings, Adams County, Nebraska
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| alma_mater=[[Kansas State University]]<br> at Manhattan, [[Kansas]]<br>
(Bachelor of Arts)
}}
'''Frederick Andrew Seaton''', known as ''' Fred A. Seaton''' (December 11, 1909 – January 16, 1974), was a [[Nebraska]][[ [[newspaper]]man and a [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[United States Senator]] for [[Nebraska]], who served only eleven months from 1951 to 1952 after appointment by [[Governor]] Frederick Valdemar Erastus "Val" Peterson (1903-1983) to succeed [[conservative]] Republican [[Kenneth Wherry]], who died in office. In 1956, [[U.S. President]] [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] appointed his fellow [[Moderate Republican]] Seaton as the [[United States Secretary of the Interior|U.S. Secretary of the Interior]]. He remained in the [[Cabinet]] until Eisenhower turned over the office to [[John F. Kennedy]] on January 20, 1961.<ref name=bioguide>Bioguide Search (congress.gov), August 23, 2021.</ref>
A native of [[Washington, D.C.]], Seaton was reared in Manhattan, [[Kansas]], by his parents, Fay Noble Seaton and the former Dorothea Elizabeth Schmidt. He attended Manhattan High School and graduated in 1931 from [[Kansas State University]], also in Manhattan. He and his wife, the former Gladys Hope Dowd (1919-1999). They had two sons, Donald Richard Seaton (1940-2018) and Alfred Noble Seaton, and twin daughters who died at birth in the summer of 1936, Johanna Christine and Monica Margaret Seaton. In 1937, Seaton moved to Hastings, Nebraska, where he was the publisher of his family-owned ''The Hastings Daily Tribune,'' which is issued six days a week until his death at the age of sixty-four.<ref name=bioguide/> Don Seaton succeeded his father as publisher and held the position until 2010.<ref>Donald R “Don” Seaton (1940-2018) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed August 23, 2021.</ref>
Publisher Seaton served on the nonpartisan, unicameral Nebraska State Legislature from 1944 to 1949. In his last two years, he was the chairman of the legislature. He had been secretary to [[Alf Landon]], former Kansas governor, the 1936 Republican presidential candidate, and the father of Moderate Republican U.S. Senator [[Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker]].<ref name=bioguide/>
After his brief term in the U.S. Senate and his four-and-a-half years as Secretary of the Interior, Seaton returned to Hastings, where he is interred with his wife and children at Parkview Cemetery.<ref>Frederick Andrew Seaton (1909-1974) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed August 23, 2021.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Seaton, Fred}}
[[Category:Nebraska]]
[[Category:Publishers]]
[[Category:Washington, D.C.]]
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]
[[Category:United States Secretaries of the Interior]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Moderate Republicans]]
| name=Frederick Andrew "Fred" Seaton
| image=Fred Seaton of NE.gif
| office=[[United States Senator]] for [[Nebraska
| term_start=December 10, 1951
| term_end=November 4, 1952
| preceded=[[Kenneth Wherry]]
| succeeded=Dwight Griswold
| office2=United States Secretary of the Interior
| president2=[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]
| term_start2=June 8, 1956
| term_end2=January 20, 1961
| preceded2=Douglas McKay
| succeeded2=[[Stewart L. Udall]]
| term_start2=December 10, 1951
| term_end2=November 4, 1952
| appointer2=Val Peterson
| preceded2=[[Kenneth Wherry]]
| succeeded2=Dwight Griswold
| occupation=[[Newspaper]] [[publisher]]
| birth_place=[[Washington, D.C.]]
| birth_date=December 11, 1909
| death_date=January 16, 1974 (aged 64)
| death_place=[[Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]]
| resting_place=Parkview Cemetery in Hastings, Adams County, Nebraska
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| alma_mater=[[Kansas State University]]<br> at Manhattan, [[Kansas]]<br>
(Bachelor of Arts)
}}
'''Frederick Andrew Seaton''', known as ''' Fred A. Seaton''' (December 11, 1909 – January 16, 1974), was a [[Nebraska]][[ [[newspaper]]man and a [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[United States Senator]] for [[Nebraska]], who served only eleven months from 1951 to 1952 after appointment by [[Governor]] Frederick Valdemar Erastus "Val" Peterson (1903-1983) to succeed [[conservative]] Republican [[Kenneth Wherry]], who died in office. In 1956, [[U.S. President]] [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] appointed his fellow [[Moderate Republican]] Seaton as the [[United States Secretary of the Interior|U.S. Secretary of the Interior]]. He remained in the [[Cabinet]] until Eisenhower turned over the office to [[John F. Kennedy]] on January 20, 1961.<ref name=bioguide>Bioguide Search (congress.gov), August 23, 2021.</ref>
A native of [[Washington, D.C.]], Seaton was reared in Manhattan, [[Kansas]], by his parents, Fay Noble Seaton and the former Dorothea Elizabeth Schmidt. He attended Manhattan High School and graduated in 1931 from [[Kansas State University]], also in Manhattan. He and his wife, the former Gladys Hope Dowd (1919-1999). They had two sons, Donald Richard Seaton (1940-2018) and Alfred Noble Seaton, and twin daughters who died at birth in the summer of 1936, Johanna Christine and Monica Margaret Seaton. In 1937, Seaton moved to Hastings, Nebraska, where he was the publisher of his family-owned ''The Hastings Daily Tribune,'' which is issued six days a week until his death at the age of sixty-four.<ref name=bioguide/> Don Seaton succeeded his father as publisher and held the position until 2010.<ref>Donald R “Don” Seaton (1940-2018) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed August 23, 2021.</ref>
Publisher Seaton served on the nonpartisan, unicameral Nebraska State Legislature from 1944 to 1949. In his last two years, he was the chairman of the legislature. He had been secretary to [[Alf Landon]], former Kansas governor, the 1936 Republican presidential candidate, and the father of Moderate Republican U.S. Senator [[Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker]].<ref name=bioguide/>
After his brief term in the U.S. Senate and his four-and-a-half years as Secretary of the Interior, Seaton returned to Hastings, where he is interred with his wife and children at Parkview Cemetery.<ref>Frederick Andrew Seaton (1909-1974) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed August 23, 2021.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Seaton, Fred}}
[[Category:Nebraska]]
[[Category:Publishers]]
[[Category:Washington, D.C.]]
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]
[[Category:United States Secretaries of the Interior]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Moderate Republicans]]