Garrison Norton

Garrison Norton (October 9, 1900 – September 9, 1995) was Assistant Secretary of the Navy (AIR) from 1956 to 1959.

Early life 1833 Portrait of his great-grandfather, William Lloyd Garrison, by Nathaniel Jocelyn which Norton bequeathed to the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Garrison Norton was born in Chicago on October 9, 1900, the son of banker Charles Dyer Norton and the former Katherine McKim Garrison. His father was a "man of impeccable London tailoring and equally impeccable conservatism" who served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary to President Taft. Garrison, however, was described as "receptive to new ideas and as liberal as his father was conservative" even though he was also a Republican. This brought him in contact with several figures in the aviation industry, some of whom became his clients. He was made a partner of Arthur Young & Company in 1932. He held this office until 1949.

He served as a director of the Export-Import Bank and as an alternate governor of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund before leaving the State Department in 1949. In the early 1950s, he worked for Donald A. Quarles, the Secretary of the Air Force, in research and development. and he would serve in this office from July 7, 1956, until February 5, 1959. His primary goal as Assistant Secretary of the Navy was with expanding the Navy's research and development capabilities. He was the last Assistant Secretary of the Navy (AIR), as the post was re-designated Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research and Development) in 1959. He served as president until his retirement in the 1960s. He also went on to serve as chairman of the Carnegie Institution for Science.

Personal life In 1943, Norton was married to Emily McMullan, who trained as a surgical nurse and served in World War II. Charles Dyer Norton II (d. 1970)