Background
Garrison Norton was born in Chicago, the son of Charles Dyer Norton and the former Katherine McKim Garrison.
assistant secretary general manager
Garrison Norton was born in Chicago, the son of Charles Dyer Norton and the former Katherine McKim Garrison.
He was raised in Washington, Doctorate. C. and Manhattan and attended the Groton School. He was educated at Harvard College, receiving a bachelor"s degree cum laude in 1923.
After college, Norton joined the accounting firm of Arthur Young & Company. During this period, Norton became interested in aviation and received his Private Pilot License. This brought him in contact with several figures in the aviation industry, some of whom became his clients.
Norton first joined the government in 1934, when he became deputy general manager of the Home Owners" Loan Corporation.
He later went on to serve as assistant to the chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Authority and director of the Office of Transport and Communications in the State Department. In 1947, President of the United States Harry South. Truman nominated Norton as an Assistant Secretary of State with responsibility for international transportation and communications.
He held this office until 1949. In the early 1950s, he worked for the United States Secretary of the Air Force in research and development.
His primary goal as Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Associated Independent Recording) was with expanding the Navy"s research and development capabilities.
He was the last Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Associated Independent Recording), as the post was redesignated Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research and Development) in 1959. Norton left government in 1959, becoming president of the Institute for Defense Analyses until his retirement in the 1960s. He also went on to serve as chairman of the Carnegie Institution for Science.
He died on September 9, 1995 at the age of 94 in his home in Washington, Doctorate. C.