| − | '''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 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> | + | '''Frederick Andrew Seaton''', known as ''' Fred A. Seaton''' (December 11, 1909 – January 16, 1974), was a [[newspaper]]man and a [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[United States Senator]] for [[Nebraska]], who served 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> | | 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> |