Truman Cabinet Member Dies
Robert Abercrombie Lovett, President Harry S. Truman’s secretary of defense and a participant in the formation of the U.S. Air Force, has died at 90.
Lovett, who died Wednesday, was the son of the president of the Union Pacific Railroad. A naval aviator in World War I, he was appointed assistant secretary of war for air in 1941, serving until December, 1945. He served briefly in the State Department, and in 1950 was appointed deputy secretary of defense. Truman named him secretary of defense in 1951, a post he held for two years.
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