Guy George Gabrielson was a Republican politician from New Jersey.
12 Facts About Guy Gabrielson
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Guy Gabrielson served as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1949 to 1952, and was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly from 1925 to 1929, and was its Speaker in 1929.
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An attorney who later became a corporate executive, after leaving elective politics, Gabrielson turned to Republican politics.
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Guy Gabrielson became a member of the Republican National Committee in 1944 and its chairman in 1948, leaving both posts in 1952.
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Guy Gabrielson lost his seat as the Depression triggered an increasing Democratic wave.
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Guy Gabrielson was then elected Chairman of the RNC in 1949.
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Guy Gabrielson would be one of the few Republican politicians not to offer him support after Nixon, by then the Republican Vice-presidential candidate, placed his fate in the hands of the RNC in the Checkers speech, saying that Nixon's speech did not "make sense" because it would take ten days to assemble the RNC.
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Guy Gabrielson supported Taft at the 1952 convention, and the Eisenhower forces were afraid he would tilt the close convention for the Ohio senator.
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Guy Gabrielson left his position as committeeman from New Jersey at the end of 1952.
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In 1959, Guy Gabrielson retired from his legal practice, dissolving his firm.
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Guy Gabrielson had lived from 1940 to 1975 in Bernardsville, New Jersey; he then moved to the seaside community of Mantoloking.
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Guy Gabrielson died in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, on May 1,1976, having outlived Cora Gabrielson by three years, and was survived by a son and daughter.