James Edwin Webb (1906 - 1992)

Born 7 Oct 1906 in Tally Ho, Granville, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Died 27 Mar 1992 at age 85 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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Biography

James Webb is Notable.

• The namesake of the James Webb Space Telescope (named in his honor in 2002^[1]) scheduled to be launched in Oct 2018^[2]
• s/o John Frederick Webb & Sarah Gorham^[3][4]
• School Superintendent
• Marine
• 1936, Passed the bar to become a lawyer
• 1938 m. Patsy Aiken Douglas, 2 children
• 1944 re-joined Marines
• worked for O. Max Gardner, Undersecretary of the Treasury
• Director of the Bureau of the Budget, Executive Office of the President, Pres. Harry S. Truman
• Undersecretary of State, US Department of State
• 1961 Appointed by Pres. John F. Kennedy as Administrator of NASA. He continued in this position until Oct 1968^[1]
• 1969 Presidential Medal of Freedom, President Johnson
• 1976 Langley Gold Medal, Smithsonian Inst.
• 1981 Sylvanus Thayer Award (dedication to country), West Point
• Buried in Arlington National Cemetery^[1][4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Wikipedia: James E Webb, accessed 26 Nov 2016
2. ↑ Wikipedia: James Webb Space Telescope, accessed 26 Nov 2016
3. ↑ Wilson, Tracy V. and Holley Frey. "James Webb and NASA’s Early Days." Stuff You Missed in History Class (Podcast). 21 Nov 2016. HowStuffWorks (Web). 26 Nov 2016
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Find A Grave Memorial #6024232, accessed 26 Nov 2016

• NASA Biographies, James E Webb, accessed 26 Nov 2016
• https://www.space.com/38870-james-webb-biography.html

• "North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VHLW-K7G : 8 December 2014), James Edwin Webb, 07 Oct 1906; from "North Carolina, Birth and Death Indexes, 1800-2000," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2005); citing vol. 3, p. 360, Granville, North Carolina, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLMB-V1J : accessed 13 January 2023), James E Webb in household of J Fred Webb, Oxford, Granville, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 85, sheet 1B, family 14, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1113; FHL microfilm 1,375,126.

• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZNL-HTY : 2 February 2021), James Webb in entry for John F Webb, 1920.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X334-NF9 : accessed 13 January 2023), James Webb in household of John F Webb, Oxford, Granville, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 12, sheet 1A, line 32, family 7, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1693; FHL microfilm 2,341,427.