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Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric (November 4, 1906 – March 15, 1996) was a prominent New York City corporate attorney and government official who served as Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1961–64, when he played a pivotal role in the high-stake strategies of the Cuban Missile Crisis, advising President John F. Kennedy as well as Robert McNamara and McGeorge Bundy on dealing with the Russian nuclear missile threat. Gilpatric later served as Chairman of the Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation in 1964. ==Early life and career== Gilpatric was born in 1906 in Brooklyn, the son of Wall Street attorney Walter Hodges Gilpatric,〔(The Cravath Firm and Its Predecessors, 1819–1947, Vol. 1, Robert T. Swaine, Ad Press, New York, 1948 )〕 an Amherst College graduate born in Warren, Rhode Island,〔(General Catalogue of Amherst College, 1821-1905, Published by the College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1905 )〕 and the former Charlotte Elizabeth Leavitt, a graduate of Mount Holyoke College born to American missionary parents in Osaka, Japan.〔(Charlotte Elizabeth Leavitt, Class of 1902, Mount Holyoke College, mtholyoke.edu )〕 Charlotte Leavitt 〔Charlotte Elizabeth Leavitt Gilpatric was awarded Mount Holyoke's Medal of Honor for her service to the college, where she served as trustee from 1921 until 1927.() Nearly all the women in the Leavitt family attended Mount Holyoke.()〕 was a college classmate and lifelong friend of Frances Perkins, the first woman appointed to a Presidential Cabinet.〔(Frances Perkins Collection, Mount Holyoke College, fivecolleges.edu )〕 On his mother's side Roswell Gilpatric was related to Harvard College astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt, whose father was the Congregational minister George Roswell Leavitt.〔George Roswell Leavitt, father of Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born in 1838 in Lowell, Massachusetts, the son of Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, son of Dr. Roswell Leavitt of Cornish, New Hampshire, (born in Charlemont, Massachusetts to Rev. Jonathan Leavitt and Sarah Hooker Leavitt) and his wife Dorothy Ashley of Deerfield, Massachusetts. Rev. Horace Hall Leavitt, American missionary to Japan and grandfather of Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, was born in 1846 in Lowell, Massachusetts, the son of Erasmus Darwin Leavitt and brother of Rev. George Roswell Leavitt, father of the well-known Harvard astronomer. The two Leavitt brothers had a third brother, Burke Fay Leavitt, who also entered the ministry, as did his son Ashley Day Leavitt.()〕 Gilpatric attended Poly Preparatory Country Day School from 1917 to 1920, when the family moved to White Plains, where he attended high school for two years before transferring to the Hotchkiss School, graduating in 1924. His duties as a scholarship boy, which included waiting on tables and cleaning rooms, kept down his participation in extracurricular activities at Hotchkiss, but he was a member of the Cum Laude Society. He graduated from Yale University in 1928, Phi Beta Kappa; and then from Yale Law School in 1931, where he was an editor of the ''Yale Law Journal''. Following his graduation, Gilpatric went to work for the New York City law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where he became a partner and where he practiced when not serving in government. Gilpatric owed much of his political cachet to his special relationship with the celebrated lawyer, diplomat and investment banker Robert A. Lovett, to whom Gilpatric was a protégé. Gilpatric served as Under Secretary of the Air Force from 1951-1953. During 1956 and 1957, Gilpatric was a member of the Rockefeller Brothers' Special Studies Project. Gilpatric was a childhood friend of Governor Nelson Rockefeller.〔(Obituary: Roswell Gilpatric, ''The Independent'' (London), March 21, 1996 )〕 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「Roswell Gilpatric」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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