Alexander Buel Trowbridge

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Alexander Buel Trowbridge

Alexander Buel Trowbridge (December 12, 1929 – April 27, 2006) was the United States Secretary of Commerce from June 14, 1967 to March 1, 1968 in the administration of Lyndon Johnson.

Alexander Trowbridge was born on December 12, 1929 in Englewood, New Jersey. As a young man he attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in 1947, graduating from Princeton University in 1951.

After World War II he worked with various reconstruction efforts. After working with the International Intern Program of the United Nations in Lake Success, New York he attended university and served in the Korean War in the Marine Corps.

Between 1954 and 1965 he served as an oil businessman. In 1965 President Lyndon Johnson made him Assistant Secretary of Commerce. On 19 January, 1967 he became acting Secretary of Commerce. He became Secretary of Commerce on 14 June, 1967 and served until 1 March, 1968. He resigned to return to business, and later served as head of the National Association of Manufacturing (from 1981 to 1989).

As Secretary he proposed to re-merge the Department of Commerce with the Department of Labor. He died at his home in Washington, D.C..

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