Up for auction "National Security Council" Fred C Scribner Jr Hand Signed 8X10 B&W Photo. 

ES-4338

 Fred C. Scribner Jr. (1908-1994) was

an American lawyer from Maine. Born in Bath, Maine, Scribner grew up in Portland. His father was a

wealthy real-estate developer and Mason. Scribner Jr. graduated from

Portland's Deering High School in

1926, Dartmouth College in

1930, and Harvard Law School in

1933. Scribner served in the Eisenhower administration,

rising to the position of under secretary of the United States Treasury. He

also served on the National

Security Council from 1959 to 1961 and was later a critic of

heightened tensions with the Soviet Union during the president of John F.

Kennedy. An Old Guard Republican, he

later served as a chief strategist for Richard Nixon's failed presidential bid

in 1960. He helped organize the Kennedy-Nixon debates,

which were the first in presidential history. After Nixon lost, he left federal

politics and returned to his home state of Maine and eventually became a

partner in the law firm of Pierce, Atwood, Scribner, Allen, Smith &

Lancaster (now known as Pierce

Atwood).

The

Scribner family papers are held at the Maine Historical Society.