He3-9-1 Clinton M. Hester
     

    POSITION 14. Held by a private member until 1938, thereafter by the Administrator of Civil Aeronautics or a member of the Civil Aeronautics Board.
     

    1929-1938
     Harry F. Guggenheim

    1938-1940
     Clinton M. Hester

    1940-1942
     Donald H. Connolly

    1942-1945
     Edward P. Warner

    1946-1948
     Theodore P. Wright

    1948-1951
     Delos W. Rentzel

    1951-1952
     Donald W. Nyrop

    1952-1956
     Joseph P. Adams

    1957-1958
     James T. Pyle
     


    NACA meeting, 19 October 1939. Left to right: Brig. Gen. George H. Brett; Clinton M. Hester; Rear Adm. John H. Towers; Lyman J. Briggs; Charles A. Lindbergh; Orville Wright; Jerome C. Hunsaker; George W. Lewis; Vannevar Bush, chairman; George J. Mead, vicechairman; John F. Victory, secretary; Charles C. Abbot; Edward P. Warner; Maj. Gen. Henry H. Arnold; Robert H. Hinckley; Capt. Sydney M. Kraus; Francis W. Reichelderfer.

    A picture of Orville Wright with George Mead and Clinton Hester
    Description: George Mead, Orville Wright, and Clinton M. Hester talking at a National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics meeting.
    Place: Washington (D.C.)
    Date: December 12, 1939
    Creator: Unknown
    Subject: United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; Wright, Orville, 1871-1948; Mead, George Jackson, 1891-1949; Hester, Clinton M.
    Work Type: Photographic print, black and white
    Copyright: Wright State University
    Terms of Use: www.libraries.wright.edu/special
    Permission: Request permission to use image
    Contributor: Wright State University Libraries
    Collection: Wright Brothers Collection
    Repository Name: Special Collections and Archives, Wright State University Libraries
    Repository Place: Dayton, Ohio
    Repository Number: 24-6-2

     

    April 27, 1937: In a statement before the US House of Representative Ways and Means Committee, Clinton Hester testifies that a Washington Times editorial published shortly before Congress held its first hearing on the marijuana issue argued: "The fatal marihuana cigarette must be recognized as a deadly drug and American children must be protected against it."