| − | '''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> | + | '''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]]. 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 two daughters, Mrs. Maynard Epp of Henderson, Nebraska, and Mrs. Jerry Hansen of Norfolk, Nebraska.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/18/archives/fred-a-seaton-interior-chief-under-eisenhower-dies-at-64-publisher.html|title=Fred A. Seaton, Interior Chief ‘Under Eisenhower, Dies at 64|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date=January 18, 1974|page=36|accessdate=August 23, 2021}}</ref> They also had twin daughters, Johanna Christine and Monica Margaret Seaton who died at birth in 1936. | + | 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), a Kasas native, had two sons, Donald Richard "Don" Seaton (1940-2018) and Alfred Noble Seaton, and two daughters, Mrs. Maynard Epp of Henderson, Nebraska, and Mrs. Jerry Hansen of Norfolk, Nebraska.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/18/archives/fred-a-seaton-interior-chief-under-eisenhower-dies-at-64-publisher.html|title=Fred A. Seaton, Interior Chief ‘Under Eisenhower, Dies at 64|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date=January 18, 1974|page=36|accessdate=August 23, 2021}}</ref> They also had twin daughters, Johanna Christine and Monica Margaret Seaton, who died at birth in 1936. |
| | In 1937, Seaton moved to Hastings, Nebraska, where he was the publisher until his death of his family-owned ''The Hastings Daily Tribune,'' which is issued six days a week. | | In 1937, Seaton moved to Hastings, Nebraska, where he was the publisher until his death of his family-owned ''The Hastings Daily Tribune,'' which is issued six days a week. |