James Young

Education

Duke University.

Career

Born in Massillon, Ohio, Young become captain of the Duke University football team He was also on active duty with the United States Navy for twenty years between 1955 and 1975. He served as medical director aboard the United States Ship Northampton, this is where he met president Kennedy for the first time.

A couple of months after meeting Kennedy, Young was asked to become the president"s personal physician.

He only cared for the Kennedy family for several months before the president was assassinated in 1963. He stayed with Jackie Kennedy for 10 days after the assassination.

Young was vice president and medical director of Massachusetts Blue Cross for 12 years. He also contributed to the book Managing Crisis: Presidential Disability and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment and appeared on the Cable News Network special White House Doctors: The President"s Shadow.

Young died on June 4, 2008 due to complications following a stroke he suffered in May the same year.

Achievements

• He was a Scottish chemist best known for his method of distilling paraffin from coal and oil shales. The James Young High School in Livingston, the Bathgate branch of the pub chain Wetherspoons and the James Young Halls at the University of Strathclyde are all named after him. In 2011 he was one of seven inaugural inductees to the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame.

Connections

Father:

John Young

Cabinetmaker, joiner

Spouse:

Mary Young of Paisley