Maurice Stans
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Maurice Hubert Stans (March 22, 1908 - April 14, 1998) was the finance chairman for the Committee to Re-elect the President, working for the re-election of Richard Nixon. He was a peripheral figure in the ensuing Watergate Scandal. Money that he raised for the campaign was clearly used to finanace some of the illegal Watergate activites however Stans always maintained, and it has not been proven to the contrary, that he had no knowledge of the various Watergate crimes.
He was indicted in 1973 for perjury and obstruction of justice, but was acquitted the following year.
Stans was born in Shakopee, Minnesota, in 1908. He was an executive partner with the Alexander Grant & Co. accounting firm in Chicago from 1940 until 1955.
He later served as U.S. deputy postmaster general from 1955-1957; deputy director Bureau of the Budget 1957–1958, director of the Bureau of the Budget 1958–1961; Secretary of Commerce 1969–1972. In 1972, he resigned as Secretary of Commerce to chair Richard Nixon's re-election campaign.
Stans died in 1998 aged 90 following a heart attack at the Huntingdon Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California.
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