Frederick A. Seaton

(1909-1974) lived in Hastings, Adams County. Publisher, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of Interior, radio and television executive, caused enactment of 1955 military reserve law and the inclusion of the soil bank program in the 1956 farm bill, recommended legislation for more school classrooms and better roads, promoted wildlife conservation and statehood for Alaska and Hawaii, advisor to U.S. President Richard M. Nixon on environment. Consult Current Biography (1956) 559-561 and New York Times obituary, January 18, 1974, p. 36.

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