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Revision as of 15:43, August 23, 2021
| Frederick Andrew "Fred" Seaton | |
| Fred A. Seaton | |
| In office December 10, 1951 – November 4, 1952 | |
| Preceded by | Kenneth Wherry |
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| Succeeded by | Dwight Griswold |
United States Secretary of the Interior
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| In office December 10, 1951 – November 4, 1952 | |
| President | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Appointed by | Frederick Valdemar Erastus "Val" Peterson |
| Preceded by | Kenneth Wherry |
| Succeeded by | Dwight Griswold |
| Born | December 11, 1909 Washington, D.C. |
| Died | January 16, 1974 (aged 64) Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Resting place | Parkview Cemetery in Hastings, Adams County, Nebraska |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater | Kansas State University at Manhattan, Kansas (Bachelor of Arts) |
| Occupation | Newspaper publisher |
Frederick Andrew Seaton, known as Fred A. Seaton (December 11, 1909 – January 16, 1974), was a Nebraska[[ newspaperman and a 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 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.[1]
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.[1] Don Seaton succeeded his father as publisher and held the position until 2010.[2]
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.[1]
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.[3]