Everything about Truman Handy Newberry totally explained
Truman Handy Newberry (
November 5,
1864 –
October 3,
1945) was a
U.S. businessman and
political figure. He served as the
Secretary of Navy between 1908 and 1909. He was a
U.S. Senator from
Michigan between 1919 and 1922.
Newberry was born in
Detroit, the son of
John Stoughton Newberry (a
U.S. Representative from Michigan) and his second wife, Helen P. Handy, the daughter of
Truman P. Handy, a well known financier and banker in Cleveland. Newberry attended
Michigan Military Academy before graduating from
Yale College's
Sheffield Scientific School, where he was a member of
St. Anthony Hall, in 1885. He became superintendent of construction, paymaster, general freight and passenger agent, and eventually manager of the
Detroit, Bay City & Alpena Railway from 1885 to 1887. He was then president and treasurer of the
Detroit Steel & Spring Company from 1887 to 1901. In 1902, he helped organize the
Packard Motor Car Company. He engaged in various other manufacturing activities, including the
Union Trust Company, the
Union Elevator Company, and the
Michigan State Telephone Company.
In 1893, he organized the
Michigan State Naval Brigade, serving as landsman in 1895; lieutenant and navigator in 1897 and 1898. He was commissioned lieutenant (junior grade) in the
United States Navy in May 1898 and served on the
U.S.S. Yosemite during the
Spanish-American War. He then served as
Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1905-1908. Filled in for the ill secretary
Victor H. Metcalf, who resigned
November 13,
1908. Truman Newberry, ad interim
Secretary of the Navy. Appointed
Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of President
Theodore Roosevelt from
December 1, 1908 to
March 5,
1909. He became lieutenant commander
United States Navy Fleet Reserve,
June 6,
1917, and was assistant to the commandant of the third naval district of
New York until
January 9,
1919.
He was elected as a
Republican to the United States Senate and served from
March 4,
1919, until his resignation on
November 18,
1922. In 1921, Newberry was tried and convicted under the
Federal Corrupt Practices Act of election "irregularities". The conviction was reversed by the
Supreme Court in
Newberry v. U.S.,, 41 S. Ct. 469, 65 L. Ed. 913, and, following an investigation, the Senate declared Newberry entitled to his seat but expressed disapproval of the sum spent in his race against automaker
Henry Ford.
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) In the face of a new movement to unseat him, Newberry resigned. Thereafter, he engaged in manufacturing. Newberry died in
Grosse Pointe, Michigan and is interred in
Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit.
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