1. Tracy Stebbins Voorhees served as Under Secretary of the United States Army from August 1949 to April 1950.
14 Facts About Tracy Voorhees
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Tracy Voorhees held numerous positions within the US Government as a civilian.
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Tracy Voorhees became a member of the law firm of Satterlee, Canfield and Stone in New York in 1917.
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Tracy Voorhees served as assistant to the Director, Bureau of Imports, War Trade Board in 1918.
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Tracy Voorhees was practicing attorney as a member of the firm of Ewing, Alley and Voorhees from 1919 to 1928 and member of the firm Blake and Voorhees from 1929 to 1942.
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Tracy Voorhees served as president of Long Island College Hospital from 1936 to 1944.
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Tracy Voorhees was a commissioned colonel in the United States Army, posted to the Judge Advocate General's Department in 1942 and detailed to the Surgeon General's Office as Director of the Legal Division, serving in the European, China-Burma-India, and Pacific Theaters of Operation.
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Tracy Voorhees was special assistant to the Secretary of War Robert P Patterson in 1946.
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Tracy Voorhees served as Under Secretary of the Army, from 22 August 1949 to 24 April 1950.
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Tracy Voorhees was vice chairman of the Committee on Present Danger from 1951 to 1953, Department of Defense Advisor to the US Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with rank of minister and the director for offshore procurement in Europe for the Secretary of Defense from 1953 to 1954.
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Tracy Voorhees was a consultant to the Secretary of Defense from 1954 to 1961, was chairman, President's Committee for Hungarian Refugee Relief from 1956 1957 and served as the President's Personal Representative for Cuban Refugees, from 1960 to 1961.
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Tracy Voorhees was vice chairman of the board of Rutgers University from 1959 to 1965.
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Tracy Voorhees's papers are preserved in Special Collections and University Archives in the Alexander Library of Rutgers University Libraries in New Brunswick.
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Tracy Voorhees' awards include Army Distinguished Service Medal, the Department of Defense Award for Distinguished Public Service, and Army Distinguished Civilian Service Award.