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==Biography== [[File:Gravesite of United States Marine Corps Major Alexander Trowbridge in Columbarium Court 8 at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., April 18, 2024.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Grave at Arlington National Cemetery]] Trowbridge was born on December 12, 1929, at 1:05 p.m. in [[Englewood, New Jersey]]. He was the son of [[American University]] Professor of [[Russia]]n History Alexander Buel Trowbridge Jr., and the grandson of Alexander Buel Trowbridge, the former dean of the [[Cornell University]] College of the Architecture (1897–1902).{{citation needed|date=February 2010}} His grandmother Gertrude Mary Sherman was the great-great-granddaughter of American founding father [[Roger Sherman]].{{citation needed|date=February 2010}} His mother, the former Julie Chamberlain, who was the executive director of the [[Woodrow Wilson Foundation]] from 1942 to 1961.<ref name="Julie">"Julie C. Herzog, Headed the Wilson Foundation." ''New York Times.'' May 15, 1980.</ref> Trowbridge's parents divorced, and he was raised by his mother.<ref>Trowbridge's step-great-grandfather was also a [[Secretary of Commerce]]. Julie Chamberlain married [[Paul M. Herzog]], the former [[List of Chairs of the National Labor Relations Board|Chairman]] of the United States [[National Labor Relations Board]], in 1959. Herzog's first wife was the former Madeleine Schafer—the granddaughter of [[Oscar Straus (politician)|Oscar S. Straus]], the former [[United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor|Secretary of Commerce and Labor]] under President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] and the first [[Jew]]ish [[United States Cabinet|Cabinet Secretary]] in 1929. See: [https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/25/obituaries/paul-m-herzog-dean-at-harvard-headed-nlrb-under-truman.html "Paul M. Herzog, Dean at Harvard."] ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]].'' November 25, 1986; "Madeleine Schafer Engaged to Marry." ''New York Times.'' January 29, 1929.</ref> As a young man, Trowbridge attended [[Phillips Academy]] in [[Andover, Massachusetts]], in 1947, before graduating with an A.B. from the [[Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs]] at [[Princeton University]] in 1951 after completing a senior thesis titled "The Spanish Loan. A Case Study of Executive-Congressional Relations in the Formulation and Control of American Foreign Policy."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Trowbridge|first=I. I. I.|date=1951|title=The Spanish Loan. A Case Study of Executive-Congressional Relations in the Formulation and Control of American Foreign Policy|url=http://dataspace.princeton.edu/jspui/handle/88435/dsp01t148fh92n}}</ref><ref name=NYTObit>Saxon, Wolfgang. [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/us/28trowbridge.html?scp=1&sq=Alexander+Buel+Trowbridge&st=nyt "Alexander Trowbridge, 76, Ex-Secretary of Commerce, Dies"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 28, 2006.</ref> After [[World War II]], he worked with various reconstruction efforts. After working with the International Intern Program of the United Nations in [[Lake Success, New York]], he served in the [[Korean War]] in the [[United States Marine Corps|Marine Corps]]. Between 1954 and 1965, he was an oil businessman. In 1965, President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] appointed him to serve as the Assistant Secretary of Commerce. On January 19, 1967, he became acting Secretary of Commerce, and in June of that year he became [[U.S. Secretary of Commerce]], a position he served in until March 1, 1968. He resigned to return to business, serving first as the President of the [[American Management Association]], in May 1968,<ref>Robert Sobel (ed.). ''Biographical Directory of the United States Executive Branch, 1774–1989.'' 1990. p. 357</ref> before the joining Allied Chemical as a Vice-Chairman of the Morristown, New Jersey–based parent company and the Chairman of their Canadian subsidiary, Allied Chemical Canada Ltd. of Pointe-Claire (QC). He later served as head of the [[National Association of Manufacturers]] from 1980 until 1989. In the early 1990s, he served as a member of the [[Competitiveness Policy Council]]. As Secretary of Commerce, he proposed to re-merge of the [[United States Department of Commerce|Department of Commerce]] and the [[United States Department of Labor|Department of Labor]]. Trowbridge died in [[Washington, D.C.]], on April 27, 2006, at the age of 76, after suffering from [[Lewy body dementia]]. He is buried at the [[Arlington National Cemetery]] in [[Arlington, Virginia]].
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