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Wilber Marion Brucker was born on June 23, 1894 in Saginaw, Michigan, the son of Ferdinand Brucker, a lawyer and Democratic congressman, and Roberta Hawn.
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Wilber Marion Brucker was born on June 23, 1894 in Saginaw, Michigan, the son of Ferdinand Brucker, a lawyer and Democratic congressman, and Roberta Hawn.
After losing a high school debate to a girl, Wilber vowed to improve his speaking skills and ultimately won a place on the varsity debating squad at the University of Michigan. He graduated from high school in Saginaw in 1912 and the University of Michigan Law School in 1916.
Wilber M. Brucker started his career in 1916 when he enlisted in the Thirty-third Infantry of the Michigan National Guard and served under General John J. Pershing in his Mexican expedition against Pancho Villa. As a lieutenant in the army's Forty-second ("Rainbow") Division during World War I, he saw action at Château-Thierry and took part in the Saint-Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. He was awarded the Silver Star.
Admitted to the Michigan bar in 1919, Brucker set up law practice in Saginaw and, spurning the party of his father, became active in Republican affairs. Over the next decade he served as assistant prosecuting attorney for Saginaw County (1919 - 1922), county prosecutor (1923 - 1926), and assistant state attorney general (1927 - 1928).
As attorney general of Michigan during 1928-1930, he obtained federal licensing for the first radio communications equipment for the state police. In 1930, Brucker was elected governor of Michigan over Democrat William A. Comstock. Brucker insulated the state police from political pressures, increased its manpower, and promoted construction of its new headquarters at Lansing.
During the Great Depression, Brucker provided some public-works jobs for those already on the welfare rolls but was unwilling to undertake major relief projects for the growing numbers of unemployed. In the face of shrinking state revenues, he imposed an austerity budget that included a 10 percent pay cut for himself. In a rematch with Comstock in 1932, Brucker was defeated. He settled in Detroit, where for the next two decades he practiced law and remained active in Republican party affairs.
He was a delegate to the party's national conventions in 1932, 1936, and 1948. In 1936 he successfully challenged Senator James Couzens for the Republican nomination to the United States Senate but lost in the general election to Democrat Prentiss M. Brown.
In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Brucker general counsel for the United States Defense Department. Although he cooperated with the Senate investigation of alleged subversion in the military, he gained national attention when, during testimony before the committee, he laughed aloud at Senator Joseph McCarthy for his accusation that President Eisenhower and others were conspiring to cover up military disloyalty. Brucker helped tighten security procedures in the Defense Department and urged defense contractors to screen employees more carefully. But he also deplored the tendency to suspend defense workers on the slightest suspicion of security risk and took steps to expedite the review process in such cases.
In 1955, Brucker was appointed to succeed Robert T. Stevens as secretary of the army. Following the Soviet Union's successful launch of Sputnik, the first artificial space satellite, Brucker carried forward research that placed the first United States satellites in orbit in 1958. He also offered improved military housing and other incentives to make a career in the army more attractive. With the outbreak of violence in Little Rock, Arkansas, over court-ordered school desegregation in 1957, Brucker supervised federal troops dispatched by President Eisenhower to maintain order in that city throughout the tense school year.
Brucker succeeded in working effectively with the unit's outspoken commander, Major General Edwin Walker, an ultraconservative who had little taste for his assignment. When Walker resigned his commission abruptly in 1959, saying in his letter of resignation that he could no longer serve amid the "fifth-column conspiracy and influence in the United States, " Brucker personally convinced him to reconsider, assuring him that he shared his opposition to Communism and that the army desperately needed men of his caliber.
Years later, Walker charged that Brucker's appeal was a deliberate effort to keep him from speaking out against Communism. Brucker was among those under consideration for secretary of defense by presidential candidate Richard Nixon in 1960, but after Nixon's defeat Brucker returned to Detroit to practice law in partnership with his son, Wilber M. Brucker, Jr.
He died in Detroit and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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After being admitted to the Michigan bar in 1919, Brucker became active in Republican affairs.
While serving as a secretary of the army, Brucker approved the strategy of maintaining the capability for massive nuclear retaliation as a deterrent to a first strike but warned that conventional forces must also be strong enough to combat tactical probes by Communist forces around the world. He argued persuasively that Quemoy and Matsu should be maintained as a buffer between Taiwan and the Communist government on the mainland of China and that United States forces should remain in West Berlin to protect that Democratic enclave from Communist aggression.
Brucker earned a reputation for intelligence and caution and took pains to avoid publicity.
Brucker married Clara Helen Hantel on August 18, 1923; they had one child.