Assistant secretary of navy, manufacturer; born Detroit, Nov. 5, 1864; son of John S. and Helen Parmelee (Handy) Newberry; educated in schools of Detroit; Michigan Military Academy; Charlier Institute, New York City; Dr. Reed’s School, Lakeville, Conn.; Yale University, graduating, Ph.B., 1885. Married at Brooklyn, Feb. 7, 1888, Harriet Josephine Barnes. Began active career in employ of Detroit, Bay City & Alpena Ry., 1885, and became superintendent of construction, freight and passenger agent, 1887; president 1887, has had charge of father’s estate; has been assistant secretary of navy since 1905. Director Union Trust Co., State Savings Bank, Michigan Telephone Co. (vice president), Parke, Davis & Co., Railway Steel Spring Co., Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co., Detroit Steel Casting Co. (president and treasurer), union Depot and Station Co., Union Elevator Co., Grace Hospital (vice president). One of the organizers of the Michigan State Naval Brigade, serving as landsman, 1895, lieutenant and navigator, 1897-98; commissioned in U.S. Navy as lieutenant (junior grade), May, 1898, and served on U.S.S. Yosemite through Spanish-American War; commissioned colonel and aide de camp to the governor, Michigan national Guard, 1899. Member Institute of Naval Architects. Republican. Presbyterian. Clubs: Union, University, New York Yacht, St. Anthony (New York); Yondotega, Detroit (Detroit). Author: Log of the U.S.S. Yosemite, 1899. Residence: 481 Jefferson Av., Detroit. Address: Navy Department, Washington.
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US Senator. Served in the United States Army during the Spanish-American War. Served as a United States Senator from Michigan from 1919 to 1922. Also served as United States Secretary of the Navy from 1908 to 1909
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Truman Handy Newberry (November 5, 1864 – October 3, 1945) was a U.S. businessman and political figure. He served as the Secretary of Navy between 1908 and 1909. He was a U.S. Senator from Michigan between 1919 and 1922. Newberry was born in Detroit, the son of John Stoughton Newberry (a U.S. Representative from Michigan) and his second wife, Helen P. Handy, the daughter of Truman P. Handy, a well known financier and banker in Cleveland. Newberry attended Michigan Military Academy before graduating from Yale College's Sheffield Scientific School, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, in 1885. He became superintendent of construction, paymaster, general freight and passenger agent, and eventually manager of the Detroit, Bay City & Alpena Railway from 1885 to 1887. He was then president and treasurer of the Detroit Steel & Spring Company from 1887 to 1901. In 1902, he helped organize the Packard Motor Car Company. He engaged in various other manufacturing activities, including the Union Trust Company, the Union Elevator Company, and the Michigan State Telephone Company. In 1893, he organized the Michigan State Naval Brigade, serving as landsman in 1895; lieutenant and navigator in 1897 and 1898. He was commissioned lieutenant (junior grade) in the United States Navy in May 1898 and served on the U.S.S. Yosemite during the Spanish-American War. He then served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1905-1908. Filled in for the ill secretary Victor H. Metcalf, who resigned November 13, 1908. Truman Newberry, ad interim Secretary of the Navy. Appointed Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of President Theodore Roosevelt from December 1, 1908 to March 5, 1909. He became lieutenant commander United States Navy Fleet Reserve, June 6, 1917, and was assistant to the commandant of the third naval district of New York until January 9, 1919. He was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1919, until his resignation on November 18, 1922. In 1921, Newberry was tried and convicted under the Federal Corrupt Practices Act of election "irregularities". The conviction was reversed by the Supreme Court in Newberry v. United States 256 U.S. 232 (1921), 41 S. Ct. 469, 65 L. Ed. 913, and, following an investigation, the Senate declared Newberry entitled to his seat but expressed disapproval of the sum spent in his race against automaker Henry Ford.[1] In the face of a new movement to unseat him, Newberry resigned. Thereafter, he engaged in manufacturing. Newberry died in Grosse Pointe, Michigan and is interred in Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit. He was replaced in the Senate by James J. Couzens, whose candidacy received the approval of then Governor Alexander Groesbeck
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