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."