McIntire, Ross T., 1889-1959
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Name (Latin)
McIntire, Ross T., 1889-1959
Date of birth
1889-08-11
Date of death
1959-12-08
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- A manual of naval hygiene, 1943 :foreward (And yet the field of naval hygiene is a sparsely covered one as far as textbooks are concerned. It is in response to this need that a number of Officers of the Medical Department have collaborated with me in the preparation of this volume Ross T. McIntire, Surgeon General, United States Navy)
- NUCMC data from Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Otis Historical Archives for National Museum of Health and Medicine painting collection, [18--]-1960s(oil portrait of Ross T. McIntire, Franklin D. Roosevelt's physician, by Samuel Bookatz (1942))
- LC man. auth. cd.(hdg.: McIntire, Ross T., 1889-1959)
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Ross T. McIntire portrait cropped
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Wikipedia description:
Ross Thomas McIntire (August 11, 1889 – December 8, 1959) was an American physician and United States Navy officer. An otolaryngologist, he was appointed physician to President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, becoming the first Physician to the President with a board-certified speciality. In 1938, he became the Surgeon General of the United States Navy, overseeing a major expansion of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery during World War II. Following his retirement from the Navy with the rank of vice admiral, he held many senior positions in medical institutions, including Chairman of the President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped.
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