James Joseph Rowley

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James Joseph Rowley (1908–1992) was director of the United States Secret Service between 1961 and 1973, under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon.

An Irish-American, Rowley had in fact been working for the Secret Service since 1938 during the days of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration after first joining the FBI in 1936. After the trauma of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Secret Service training was regularized and systematized. The James J. Rowley Training Center in Beltsville, Maryland is named after him.

Rowley was a Roman Catholic. His brother Francis, was a Catholic priest who belonged to the largest all-male religious order in the Roman Catholic Church, the Jesuits.

External links

Transcript of interview with Rowley from the Truman Library

Preceded by U.E. Baughman	Chief, United States Secret Service September 1, 1961 – 1965	Succeeded by Himself (as Director)
Preceded by Himself (as Chief)	Director, United States Secret Service 1965 – October 1973	Succeeded by H. Stuart Knight

v t e Chiefs and Directors of the United States Secret Service

William P. Wood (1865–1869) Hiram C. Whitley (1869–1874) Elmer Washburn (1874–1876) James Brooks (1876–1888) John S. Bell (1888–1890) Andrew L. Drummond (1891–1894) William P. Hazen (1894–1898) John E. Wilkie (1898–1911) William J. Flynn (1912–1917) William H. Moran (1917–1936) Frank J. Wilson (1937–1946) James J. Maloney (1946–1948) U. E. Baughman (1948–1961) James J. Rowley (1961–1973) H. Stuart Knight (1973–1981) John R. Simpson (1981–1992) John Magaw (1992–1993) Eljay B. Bowron (1993–1997) Lewis C. Merletti (1997–1999) Brian L. Stafford (1999–2003) W. Ralph Basham (2003–2006) Mark J. Sullivan (2006–2013) Julia Pierson (2013–present)

Chief (1865–1965) • Director (1965–present)

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Name	Rowley, James Joseph
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Short description	American secret service agent
Date of birth	1908
Place of birth
Date of death	1992
Place of death

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