Ann C. Whitman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Personal secretary to the President
Date of Birth: 11-Jun-1908
Place of Birth: Perry, Ohio, United States
Date of Death: 15-Oct-1991
Profession: secretary
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Ann C. Whitman
- Ann Cook Whitman (June 11, 1908 – October 15, 1991) was a native of Perry, Ohio.
- She briefly attended Antioch College in Ohio and then moved to New York in 1929 to obtain work as a secretary.
- For many years she was the personal secretary to Mrs.
- David Levy, whose father was one of the founders of Sears, Roebuck and Company.
- In 1941 she married Edmund S.
- Whitman, an official of the United Fruit Company.
- In 1952, while working as a secretary in the New York office of the Crusade for Freedom, Mrs.
- Whitman was recruited by Dwight D.
- Eisenhower’s presidential campaign staff.
- She went to Eisenhower’s headquarters at Denver, Colorado where she became Eisenhower’s personal secretary.
- After Eisenhower was elected president, Mrs.
- Whitman accompanied him to Washington, D.C., and served as his personal secretary the entire eight years of his presidency.
- She helped manage Eisenhower’s correspondence and was responsible for maintaining Eisenhower’s personal files which he kept in his office at the White House.
- The Ann Whitman File is held at the Eisenhower presidential library and has been deemed an "extraordinary resource" by historians.When President Eisenhower left office in January 1961, Mrs.
- Whitman accompanied him to his farm (now the Eisenhower National Historic Site) in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and continued to work for a few months as his personal secretary.
- She later joined the staff of New York Governor and later Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, for whom she worked until she retired in 1977.
- A biography of Whitman, entitled Confidential Secretary, was written by journalist Robert Donovan in 1988.
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