Fred Korth

Fred Korth
United States Secretary of the Navy
In office
January 4, 1962 – November 1, 1963
President John F. Kennedy
Preceded by John Connally
Succeeded by Paul B. Fay (Acting)
Personal details
Born (1909-09-09)September 9, 1909
Yorktown, Texas, U.S.
Died September 14, 1998(1998-09-14) (aged 89)
El Paso, Texas, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s)

Vera Sansom Connell (divorced)

Charlotte Marguerite Brooks
Education University of Texas, Austin (BA)
George Washington University (LLB)

Frederick Herman Korth (September 9, 1909 – September 14, 1998) served as the 56th U.S. Secretary of the Navy during 1962-63; he was also an Assistant Secretary of the Army in 1952-53.

Appointed as Navy Secretary by President John F. Kennedy on January 4, 1962, Korth resigned October, 1963. Various sources cite reasons for Secretary Korth's departure. He was president of the Continental National Bank of Fort Worth, Texas. Continental National Bank was a principal money source for the General Dynamics plant for the TFX (Tactical Fighter Experimental), which later emerged as the more well-known F-111 Aardvark. A commentary in the May, 1985 edition of Proceedings magazine exonerates Korth for any improprieties relating to the awarding of TFX.

Korth was born in September 1909 in Yorktown, Texas.

When he was not serving in the above public or private sector capacities, Fred Korth was a lawyer in private practice. One of his better known cases was a small one heard June 24, 1948 in the County of Tarrant, Texas, when his client, Edwin A. Ekdahl, was officially divorced from Marguerite Frances Ekdahl (later known as Marguerite Oswald, the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald).

Frederick Herman Korth died in September 1998 in El Paso, Texas and was buried in October 1998 under a three century old Texas Live Oak tree on his ranch in Karnes County, Texas.

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    Government offices
    Preceded by
    John B. Connally, Jr    		 United States Secretary of the Navy
    January 4, 1962 – November 1, 1963    		 Succeeded by
    Paul B. Fay
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