Guy Gabrielson
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Guy George Gabrielson (1891/1892 – May 1, 1976) was chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1949 to 1952.
[edit] Career
A lawyer in private life, he was also politically active in New Jersey, serving in the New Jersey Assembly from 1925 to 1929.
In a 1950 New York Times article[1] in the wake of McCarthyism[2], he said homosexuals working for the American government were "perhaps as dangerous as actual Communists"[3].
[edit] References
- ^ New York Times, April 19, 1950, page 25
- ^ Paul Lyons, The New Censors: Movies and the Culture Wars, Temple University Press, 1997, page 110
- ^ Lee Edelman, Homographesis: essays in gay literary and cultural theory, Routledge, New York & London, 1994, page 156
- "Guy Gabrielson, G.O.P. Figure, Dies", The New York Times, May 2, 1976
- The Political Graveyard
| Preceded by Hugh D. Scott, Jr. |
Chairman of the Republican National Committee 1949 - 1952 |
Succeeded by Arthur E. Summerfield |
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