George E. Akerson

George Edward Akerson (September 5, 1889 – 1937) was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Akerson attended the University of Minnesota, taking classes in Science, Literature and Art. After leaving there, he received a job at the Minneapolis Tribune. In 1910 Akerson started at Harvard University, later receiving a BA in Political Science in 1912. Akerson married Harriet Blake, a Wellesley College graduate, on June 28, 1915.

George Akerson went on to become a U.S. journalist who served in the Hoover Administration from 1929 to 1931 as the first official White House Press Secretary.

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http://www.whitehousehistory.org/03/subs_press/02.swf