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Strauss Named AEC Chairman

AUG 01, 1953
President’s Adviser Succeeds Dean.
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Lewis L. Strauss, President Eisenhower’s adviser on atomic energy matters, has been selected as the new chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Mr. Strauss, a New York financier and rear admiral in the United States Naval Reserve, was an original member of the Commission, having been appointed to the AEC in 1946. He returned to private business in 1950. Gordon Dean, the previous chairman of the Commission, declared that it was his intention to retire some months ago, but delayed the date of his resignation until June 30th to give the President time to select a new chairman.

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