Roswell Gilpatric

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Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric (November 4, 1906 – March 15, 1996), Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1961-1964; Chairman, Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation, 1964.

From the Cravath, Swaine & Moore Firm History: Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric was born November 4, 1906, in Brooklyn, N. Y., the son of Walter Hodges Gilpatric, born in Rhode Island, and Charlotte Leavitt Gilpatric, born to American parents in Osaka, Japan.

After Attending Public School No. 102 in Brooklyn, Roswell attended Poly Preparatory Country Day School from 1917 to 1920, when the family moved to White Plains. There he attended the high school for two years and then went to 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.

During 1956 and 1957, Gilpatric was a member of the Rockefeller Brothers' Special Studies Project.

Gilpatric died on March 15, 1996, in New York, and was buried in Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine.