Nelson B. Gaskill
American government official
About Nelson B. Gaskill
Lived 1875 – 1964 (aged 88–89).
Nelson Burr Gaskill (September 1875 – October 6, 1964) was the chair of the Federal Trade Commission from December 1, 1921, to November 30, 1922.
The son of New Jersey judge Joseph H. Gaskill, Gaskill received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1896, where he won a senior prize for oratory, followed by a law degree from Harvard Law School. He joined the New Jersey National Guard, where he was elected captain of his company in 1902, and served as Assistant Attorney General for New Jersey.
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Gaskill to a seat on the Federal Trade Commission vacated by the retirement of John Franklin Fort, due to illness.
Gaskill died at the age of 89.
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American government official (1875–1964)
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Nelson B. Gaskill died in 1964.
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