1908 - 1984
(1908–84), lawyer and government official; younger son of Joel E. Spingarn and nephew of Arthur Spingarn. Longtime employee of the U.S. Treasury Department, where he served as assistant attorney (1934–39), special assistant (1937–38), assistant general counsel (1946–49), and deputy director, Office of Contract Settlement (1947–49); administrative assistant to President Truman (1949–50); commissioner (1950–53) and acting chair (1952–55), FTC. In 1942, before he went to serve in World War II, Spingarn was named to the advisory board to the fledgling NAACP Washington bureau.