Background
Longstreet, Victor Mendell was born on January 1, 1907 in Louisville. Son of Joseph Emens and Allan Bemus (McKinley) Longstreet.
Longstreet, Victor Mendell was born on January 1, 1907 in Louisville. Son of Joseph Emens and Allan Bemus (McKinley) Longstreet.
He was educated in economics at Harvard University, taking his degree magna cum laude in 1930.
From 1962 to 1965, he was United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller). His first job after graduating was working as an economist at American Telephone & Telegraph Company. He later took a job as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board. During World World War II, he served in the United States Army.
After the war, Longstreet joined the United States Department of State"s economic development division.
In 1948, he joined the Economic Cooperation Administration and worked in their office in the Netherlands, and later Paris, until 1952. Upon returning to the United States., in the mid-1950s, he became vice president and manager of the Louisville branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis.
Next, he left the public sector to become director of management research at Schering Corporation. In 1962, President of the United States John F. Kennedy nominated Longstreet as Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller), and Longstreet subsequently held this office from September 14, 1962 until December 31, 1965.
In the later 1960s, Longstreet began a career as a management consultant, joining International Management Group of Boston as an associate director
He later moved to the Boston Consulting Group and served as its chairman. Longstreet retired to Bethesda, Maryland, and died there of pneumonia on February 5, 2000, at the age of 94.
Served from captain to lieutenant colonel Air corpus, United States army, 1943-1945. Member Harvard Club (New York City), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Mary Margaret Landry, 1930 (deceased). 1 child, Katherine Allan.