Kenneth C. Royall AKA Kenneth Claiborne Royall Born: 24-Jul-1894 Birthplace: Goldsboro, NC Died: 27-May-1971 Location of death: Durham, NC Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Willow Dale Cemetery, Goldsboro, NC
Gender: Male Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Attorney, Government Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States Executive summary: US Secretary of the Army, 1947-49 Military service: US Army (lt., WWI 1917-19; brig. gen, WWII 1942-45) Among the attorneys for the defense in the secret trial of eight Nazi spies, captured 1942 in New York as attempted saboteurs in Operation Pastorius. All were convicted and six executed; the others were pardoned and deported after the war. Father: George Royall Mother: Clara Howard Jones Wife: Margaret Best (m. 18-Aug-1917) Son: Kenneth Claiborne Royall, Jr. (NC State Senator) Daughter: Margaret Son: George Pender
High School: Episcopal High School, Alexandria, VA University: BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1914) University: LLB, Harvard Law School (1917)
US Secretary of the Army (1947-49) US Secretary of War (1947) US War Department Under Secretary (1945-47) US War Department Special Assistant to the Secretary of War (1944-45) North Carolina State Senate (1927) Rogers & Wells Partner (1949-61)
Harvard Law Review John F. Kennedy Memorial Library Trustee
North Carolina State Bar President (1927) North Carolina State Bar 1916 Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Phi Beta Kappa Society
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