Background
Gumbel, Irving was born on February 5, 1895 in Louisville. Son of Simon Moses and Cora (Gumbel) Gumbel.
Gumbel, Irving was born on February 5, 1895 in Louisville. Son of Simon Moses and Cora (Gumbel) Gumbel.
Student Phillips Exeter Academy, 1909-1912. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1916.
Childlren—Barbara Denise (Mistress Thomas R. O’Connor), Yvonne, Camile (Mistress Michael Lacton). Began as European representative South. Gumbel & Company, New Orleans, 1919-1921. Trust officer Interstate Trust & Banking Company, New Orleans, 1921-1929.
European representative Fenner & Beane, New York City, 1929-1935, manager, Augusta, Georgia, 1935-1940.
Senior reviewer Foreign Funds Control, 1941-1942. Commodity analyst United States Commercial Company, 1942-1943.
Regional specialist O.W.I., 1943-1944. Special assistant Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1944-1946.
Chief chemicals and light metals branch War Assets Administration, 1946-1950.
Assistant administrator defense coordination General Services Administration, 1950, now director materials division East.P.S., General Services Admnistrn.
Served with Ambulance Service, United States Army, 1917-1919.
Married Margery Kalmon, May 30, 1921.