Background
Pace was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and attended The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
lawyer United States Secretary of the Army
Pace was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and attended The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
Bachelor of Arts, Princeton University, 1933; Master of Arts, Princeton University, 1950; Bachelor of Laws, Harvard University, 1936; Doctor of Laws, University Louisville, 1950; Doctor of Laws, Dartmouth College Doctor of Laws, Syracuse University Doctor of Laws, Temple University Doctor of Laws, University Arkansas, 1951; Doctor of Laws, Northland College, 1956; Doctor of Laws, Adelphi College, 1958; Doctor of Laws, West Virginia University, 1959; Doctor of Laws, Columbia University, 1960; Doctor of Laws, Norwich U., 1960; Doctor of Science, Lafayette College, 1952; Doctor of Science, Clarkson College Doctor of Humane Letters, Washington College, 1955.
Pace entered public service in 1936 as an assistant district attorney in Arkansas. He moved onto the Arkansas Revenue Department in 1938. In 1942 he was commissioned into the United States Army Air Forces as a second lieutenant where he served until 1945 in the Air Transport Command, Army Air Corps, reaching the rank of Major.
After leaving the Army in 1945 he returned to public service as an assistant to the United States Attorney General, then later as executive assistant to the Postmaster General.
He then moved in 1948 to the Bureau of the Budget, first as assistant director and then as director On April 12, 1950 he was appointed Secretary of the Army, where he served until January 20, 1953.
He went on to serve as chief executive officer of General Dynamics Corporation from 1953 until 1962. He was selected as the administrator-designate of the Emergency Transport Agency.
Participant of a secret group created by President Eisenhower in 1958 that would serve in the event of a national emergency that became known as the Eisenhower Ten.
In 1964, Pace joined David Rockefeller to launch the International Executive Service Corps, which was established to help bring about prosperity and stability in developing nations through the growth of private enterprise. Pace went on to serve as president of the IESC. Pace was the first chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, from 1968 until 1972. Pace appeared on the cover of Time magazine on January 20, 1958.
Pace worked for the International Executive Service Corps.
In the early 1970s he worked for the first Executive Service Corps (ESC) as a Management Support Organization (MSO) in New New York Pace died of heart attack in Greenwich, Connecticut on January 8, 1988, at the age of 75.
Chief United States delegate Conference Postal Experts, Paris, 1947. Representative Universal Postal Union at United Nations, 1947-1948. Vice president Paris conference.
Chairman, member North Atlantic Treaty Organization Defense Ministers Conference, Brussels, 1950, member conference, Canada and Italy, 1951. Chairman.Am. council North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1957-1960, director, 1960. Vice chairman President's Commn.Nat.
Goals, 1959-1960; member President's Council Youth Fitness, President'sCommn. for a National Agenda for 1980's. Past president; chairman council North Atlantic Treaty Organization;member President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, 1961-1973. Member of national policy panel United Nations Association Executive committee Greater New York council Boy Scouts American.
Member international council American Field Service. Member of national commission performance-based education Ednl. Testing Service; member National Committee on Careers for Older Americans.
Member policy board International Health Resource Consortium. Life trustee George C. Marshall Research Foundation. Past trustee California Institute Technology.
Board directors Institute for Future. Director International Management and Devel.Inst. Member of advisory board Stanford Research Institute Strategic Studies Center.
Member of advisory committee Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. National board Boys Clubs' American. Member corporation Greenwich Hospital Chairman's Association board visitors United States Air Force SystemsCommand.
Vice chairman of the board of trustees Robert A. Taft Institute Government. Member founding board Civilian Military Institute, 1976. Chairman of Commission on marshalling humanresources President's Task Force on Private Sector Initiatives, 1982-1988.
Served to major United States Army Air Force, 1942-1946. Member National Institute Social Sciences (president 1962-1977), National Academy Public Administration (panel on managing federal government-role of President), Association United States Army (lifemem., president 1968-1971, recipient George Catlett Marshall medal), Brookings Institution.
Married Margaret Morris Janney, November 22, 1940. Children: Paula Layton (Mistress Kent Smith), Priscilla Janney (Mrs.Malte von Matthiessen), Margaret Morris, (Mistress Edward Schott).
