Tracy Voorhees
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Tracy S. Voorhees (June 30 1890-Sept 25 1974) served as undersecretary of the United States Army.
He was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey; graduated from Rutgers University with a B.A. degree in 1911 and an M.A. degree in 1914; received an LL.B. degree from Columbia Law School in 1915; was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1915, and the New York bar in 1918.
He became a member of the law firm of Satterlee, Canfield and Stone in New York in 1917. He served as assistant to the Director, Bureau of Imports, War Trade Board in 1918. He was practicing attorney as a member of the firm of Ewing, Alley and Voorhees from 1919 to 1928 and member of the firm Blake and Voorhees from 1929 to 1942.
He was a commissioned colonel in the Army of the United States (AUS), posted to the Judge Advocate General's Department in 1942 and detailed to The Surgeon General's Office, serving in the European, China-Burma-India, and Pacific Theaters of Operation. He was special assistant to the Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson in 1946. As a civilian he was special assistant to Secretaries of War Patterson and Kenneth C. Royall, served as the War Department's Food Administrator for Occupied Areas, from 1947-1948 and served as Assistant Secretary of the Army, from 17 June 1948 to 21 August 1949.
He served as Under Secretary of the Army, from 22 August 1949 to 24 April 1950. He was vice chairman of the Committee on Present Danger from 1951 to 1953, Department of Defense Advisor to the U.S. Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with rank of minister and the director for offshore procurement in Europe for the Secretary of Defense from 1953 to 1954. He was a consultant to the Secretary of Defense from 1954 to 1961, was chairman, President's Committee for Hungarian Refugee Relief from 1956 1957 and served as the President's Personal Representative for Cuban Refugees, from 1960 to 1961. He was vice chairman of the board of Rutgers University from 1959 to 1965. He died in Brooklyn, New York.