Alfred B. Fitt

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Alfred B. Fitt
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs
In office
1967–1969
PresidentLyndon B. Johnson
General Counsel of the Army
In office
1964–1967
Preceded byJoseph A. Califano Jr.
Succeeded byRobert E. Jordan III
Personal details
Born
Alfred Bradley Fitt

(1923-04-12)April 12, 1923
Highland Park, Illinois, U.S.
DiedJuly 7, 1992(1992-07-07) (aged 69)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Spouse(s)Patricia Hewitt
Lois Dickinson Rice (1978–1992)
Children4
EducationYale University (BA)
University of Michigan (LLB)

Alfred Bradley Fitt (1923–1992) was an American attorney who served as General Counsel of the Army from 1964 to 1967, as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs from 1967 to 1969, as general counsel of the Congressional Budget Office from 1975 to 1992.

Early life and education[]

Alfred B. Fitt was born in Highland Park, Illinois, on April 12, 1923.[1] He was educated at Yale University, receiving a B.A. in 1946.[1] He then attended the University of Michigan Law School, received a LLB in 1948.[1] He was admitted to the bar in 1948.[1]

Career[]

In 1948, Fitt became an associate at the Detroit law firm of Lewis & Watkins.[1] He became a partner in the firm in 1952. In 1954, he left Lewis & Watkins to become a legal adviser to the governor of Michigan, G. Mennen Williams.[1] In 1960, he moved to Washington, D.C., to become associate counsel of the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts.[1] In 1961, he became chief counsel of the Special Committee on FAA Procedures.[1]

Later in 1961, Fitt joined the United States Department of the Army as Deputy Under Secretary of the Army for Manpower.[1] He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civil Rights as 1963 to 1964.[1] From 1964 to 1967, he served as General Counsel of the Army.[1] He was Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs from October 9, 1967, to February 20, 1969.[2]

Fitt left government service in 1969 to become President of Yale Kingman Brewster Jr.'s special assistant for community and alumni affairs.[3]

In 1975, Fitt left Yale to become general counsel of the Congressional Budget Office, a position he would hold for the next seventeen years.[4]

Personal life[]

Fitt was married twice. His second wife, Lois Dickson Rice (1933-2017), married Fitt in 1977, four years after her divorce from Emmett J. Rice, making Fitt the stepfather of Susan Rice.[5] Fitt died on July 7, 1992, at the age of 69.[4]

Works[]

  • "The National Guard and Civil Disturbance", City (August/September 1970), pp. 41–43.
  • "The Buckley Amendment: Understanding It, Living with It", The College Board Review, No. 96, Summer 1975, 2 & 3
  • Social Security Benefits for Students (1977).
  • "In Search of a Just Outcome", Change, Vol. 9, No. 10 (Oct., 1977), pp. 22–25, 59.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k Lyndon Baines Johnson Library Oral History Collection, Interview with Alfred B. Fitt, 1968
  2. ^ "Department of Defense Key Officials, p. 44" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
  3. ^ Yale University Library Finding Aid on Alfred B. Fitt
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "Alfred B. Fitt Dies; Counsel to Congressional Budget Office", Washington Post, July 9, 1992
  5. ^ "Susan Rice's Genealogy on rootsweb". Archived from the original on 2017-04-06. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
Government offices
Preceded by
Joseph A. Califano Jr. 		General Counsel of the Army
1964 – 1967 		Succeeded by
Robert E. Jordan III
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