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John Cushman Truesdale, Jr. (July 17, 1921 – July 3, 2011) was an American lawyer and civil servant who served two terms as Executive Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board, four terms as a Board member, and one term as Board Chair. ==Early life and career== John Truesdale was born on July 17, 1921, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to John C. and Hazel C. Truesdale.〔(Buerger, Megan. "John C. Truesdale, NLRB Chairman and Staff Member, Dies at 89." ''Washington Post.'' July 9, 2011. ) Accessed 2011-07-15.〕〔''Who's Who in Labor,'' p. 602.〕 He was one of four children, and he had three sisters: Patty, Anne, and Mary.〔"Mrs. Truesdale Dies in Florida." ''Grinnell Herald-Register.'' May 15, 1980.〕 In 1927, his father was appointed professor of physical education at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa.〔Nollen, p. 181.〕 His father later was the college's men's basketball coach,〔Toner, p. 207.〕 and young John grew up in Grinnell and attended public schools there.〔 Like his siblings,〔 he enrolled at Grinnell College and received his A.B. degree in social studies in 1942.〔〔("National Labor Relations Board Nomination of John C. Truesdale to Be a Member." Press release. Office of the President. The White House. September 26, 1977. Woolley, John T. and Peters, Gerhard. ''The American Presidency Project.'' Santa Barbara, Calif. ) Accessed 2011-07-15.〕 He enlisted in the United States Coast Guard and entered the service in 1943.〔 His first post was as an anti-submarine warfare instructor.〔 From April 1944 to 1946, he was the anti-submarine warfare officer on the USS ''Peterson'', an ''Edsall'' class destroyer escort serving convoy duty in the North Atlantic.〔 On April 15, Truesdale's first day aboard ship, the ''Peterson'' and two other destroyer escorts engaged and sank a German submarine, the ''U-550''.〔 Truesdale enrolled in September 1946 at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.〔Toner, p. 207-208.〕 He graduated with an M.S. in industrial and labor relations in May 1948.〔 Cornell University had the only school of industrial relations at the time, and each year NLRB staff traveled to the school to hire qualified staff. One of Truesdale's professors had his entire class take the NLRB exam, and Truesdale scored well on it.〔 The Board offered Truesdale a job, and he was hired by the Buffalo field office as a field examiner in 1948.〔〔 For several months after his appointment, he rented a room from fellow labor lawyer and friend Richard Lipsitz, Sr.〔Lipsitz later defended numerous labor leaders before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations during Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist hearings in the 1950s. He also defended many people before hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s and 1960s. He also represented civil servants accused of violating the McCarran Internal Security Act and educators accused of violating New York state's anticommunist loyalty test laws (known as the "Feinberg law"). He was the winning counsel in ''Keyishian v. Board of Regents'', 385 U.S. 589 (1967), which overturned the law. See: Williams, Fred O. "Labor of Love: Richard Lipsitz, Sr., Has Been Labor's Advocate for More Than 50 Years." ''Buffalo News.'' May 7, 2003.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John C. Truesdale」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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