Marvin Hunter McIntyre was an American

United States

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 journalist

Journalist

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 and Presidential Secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

 (FDR).

Biography

McIntyre was born in La Grange, Kentucky

La Grange, Kentucky

As of the census of 2000, there were 5,676 people, 2,216 households, and 1,502 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,514.8 people per square mile . There were 2,330 housing units at an average density of 621.8 per square mile...

, 27 November 1878 and was educated at the Wall and Mooney Preparatory school in Franklin, Tennessee

Franklin, Tennessee

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, and at Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University

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.

Beginning his career in 1905 in journalism

Journalism

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, he rose to city editor of The Washington Post

The Washington Post

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. In 1909 he become the editor of the Washington Times. He left this post in 1917 to become Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy and to serve as a member of the Committee on Public Information under George Creel

George Creel

George Creel was an investigative journalist, a politician, and, most famously, the head of the United States Committee on Public Information, a propaganda organization created by President Woodrow Wilson during World War I. He said of himself that "an open mind is not part of my inheritance...

 and as publicity director for United States Navy

United States Navy

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 during the First World War until 1921. In this Navy connection McIntyre first met Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy

Assistant Secretary of the Navy

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.

He served as publicity representative and business manager for several of FDR’s campaigns and after the Democratic defeat in 1920

United States presidential election, 1920

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, he remained in Washington DC, contributing articles to Army and Navy Journals and later becoming representative of the Pathé

Pathé

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 News Reel Company. He stayed in the motion picture business until 1931 when the Roosevelt-for-President drive began to gather momentum and FDR, then Governor of New York

Governor of New York

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, called McIntyre to join him in Albany

Albany, New York

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 to start plans for the campaign.

When the FDR was inaugurated on March 4, 1933, he appointed McIntyre to the Presidential Secretariat

Presidential Secretariat

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 making him an assistant secretary in charge of appointments. In addition to these duties McIntyre served as traveling secretary. On 1 July 1937, he became the President's Appointments Secretary until illness prevented him from carrying out his duties in 1938. He returned to the White House in 1941 assuming duties as the President’s Correspondence Secretary where he remained until his death in 13 December 1943, in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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. He was succeeded by William D. Hassett.

He was a Colonel

Colonel

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 in the Kentucky Guard.

Namesake

The World War II

World War II

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 Haskell-class

Haskell class attack transport

Haskell-class attack transports were amphibious assault ships of the United States Navy created in 1944. They were designed to transport 1,500 troops and their combat equipment, and land them on hostile shores with the ships' integral landing craft....

 attack transport

Attack transport

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was named in his honor.