James J. Rowley; Former Director of Secret Service
James J. Rowley, 84, director of the Secret Service from 1961 to 1973. Rowley served six presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard M. Nixon. Rowley joined the Secret Service in New York in 1938, after stints as a lawyer and an FBI agent. He was named chief of the service’s presidential protection division in 1947. In Washington on Sunday of heart failure.
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