This is a rare autographed 8x10 photo of Dixon Donnelly, former Assistant to the Secretary of Treasury for Public Affairs and Assistant to Under Secretary of State.

This item also comes with a March 3, 1961 Treasury Department Press Release announcing Dixon Donnelly's appointment as Assistant to Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon.  The press release, typewritten on Treasury Department letterhead, contains a bio, which includes the following:

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Washington, D.C.

RELEASE MORNING NEWSPAPERS,

Friday, March 3, 1961.

     "Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon today announced the appointment of Dixon Donnelley, former Washington newsman and foreign news magazine editor, as Assistant to the Secretary for Public Affairs.  Mr. Donnelley served as Assistant to Mr. Dillon when he was Under Secretary of State.

     Born in New York City on July 29, 1915, Mr. Donnelley attended Columbia University.  He began news work on the New York Daily News, and went to Cuba in 1937 as city Editor of The Havana Post.

     He returned to the United States in 1940 and became Assistant City Editor of The Washington Daily News, joining Nelson Rockefeller's Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs as News Editor a year later.  From 1942-45, he was an Intelligence Officer with the U.S. Army Air Force.  At war's end, he became Assistant City Editor of The Washington Post.

     Mr. Donnelley joined the Foreign Service in 1946 and served as Press Attache to U.S. Embassies in Mexico, Chile, and Argentina.  In 1950, he resigned to become Editor and Publisher of "Visao," an American-owned news magazine published in Brazil.

     In 1955, Mr. Donnelley became Editorial Director of the Senate Sub-committee on Juvenile Delinquency.  He then served on the Stevenson-Kefauver campaign staff in 1956 as Senator Estes Kefauver's Public Relations Director.  Prior to rejoining the State Department in 1958, Mr. Donnelley was a Consultant to the President's Committee on Scientists and Engineers.

     Author of "Establishing and Operating a Small Newspaper," Mr. Donnelley belongs to the National Press Club, Washington, and the Overseas Press Club, New York.

     Mr. Donnelley was married in 1943 to Lucia Tarquinio de Sousa, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  Mrs. Donnelley, a former newswoman, is an interpreter who has served at many major international conferences.  The Donnelleys have a daughter, Leigh Patricia, 16, who attends Marymount School in Arlington, Virginia.  They live at ..."

Other notes about Donnelley: In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson nominated Donnelley as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and he held the office from March 22, 1966 to January 31, 1969.  He was the spokesman of the U.S. Department of State during the height of the Vietnam War.  Donnelley passed away in January 1982.

This is a rare opportunity to obtain the autograph of this historic figure.

Note: Photo has significant wear, mainly around the edges.  Press release also has some edge wear.  See photos.

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