Andrew Downey Orrick
Andrew Downey Orrick was the acting chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in San Francisco.
Biography
He spent his legal career with the firm now called Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe founded in 1885. His father, William Horsley Orrick. He had a brother, William Horsley Orrick II. Downey graduated from Yale in 1940, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.[1] He served in the United States Army during World War II, where he was promoted to Captain. At Yale, while playing for Yale's baseball team, he hit what was considered at that time the longest home run. He attended UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco after the war and joined his father's law firm in 1947. He was San Francisco chairman of Citizens for Eisenhower in 1952, during Dwight Eisenhower's first run for president. In 1962 he was the Northern California chairman of Richard Nixon's campaign for governor of California. He became regional administrator of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in San Francisco in December 1954. He was renominated to a new term in 1957, spent a brief period as acting chairman and served until 1960.[2]
References
- ^ "WEDDING ON JUNE 25 FOR MARJORI SOULE". New York Times. 16 May 1952. p. 17.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Egelko, Bob (February 2, 2008). "S.F. lawyer Andrew Downey Orrick dies". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
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