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Maurice Stans


19th United States Secretary of Commerce
In office January 21, 1969 – February 15, 1972
President	Richard Nixon
Preceded by	C. R. Smith
Succeeded by	Peter G. Peterson
13th Director of the Bureau of the Budget
In office March 18, 1958 – January 21, 1961
President	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Preceded by	Percival Brundage
Succeeded by	David E. Bell

Personal details
Born	Maurice Hubert Stans (1908-03-22)March 22, 1908 Shakopee, Minnesota, U.S.
Died	April 14, 1998(1998-04-14) (aged 90) Pasadena, California, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Kathleen Stans
Children	4

Maurice Hubert Stans (March 22, 1908 – April 14, 1998) was an American accountant, civil servant, and political organizer who served as the 19th United States Secretary of Commerce from 1969 to 1972. He served as the finance chairman for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, working for the re-election of Richard Nixon. He pleaded guilty to five counts for technical violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act that were revealed during the larger investigation into the Watergate scandal.

Early life and education

Stans was born on March 22, 1908, in Shakopee, Minnesota, the son of James Hubert Stans and Mathilda Stans (nee Nyssen). His father was the only child of Jan Hendrik Stans and Maria Catharina Crijns, a Belgian couple who immigrated to the United States in 1880. Stans graduated from Shakopee High School in 1925. He worked at a local foundry before traveling to Chicago to find work with friend, Otto F. Schultz. The same year, he began work as a stenographer and bookkeeper for a Chicago importer, while attending evening classes at Northwestern University. In 1928 he joined the Chicago-based firm of Alexander Grant and Company, certified public accountants, and continued his part-time studies at Columbia University while working at the firm's New York City office. He attended Columbia from 1928 to 1930.

Career

Stans was an executive partner with the Alexander Grant & Co. accounting firm in Chicago from 1940 until 1955. He was a Certified Public Accountant, licensed in New York, Ohio and Virginia. He was President of the American Institute of Accountants from 1954 to 1955 and won the Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to the Profession in 1954. He was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 1960.

Public servant under Eisenhower and Nixon

External videos
1973 Watergate Hearings; 1973-06-13; Part 1 of 3, 1:36:09, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (WGBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC

He later served as U.S. deputy postmaster general from 1955 to 1957, in the Dwight Eisenhower administration. He served as deputy director of the Bureau of the Budget from 1957 to 1958, and director of the Bureau of the Budget from 1958 to 1961, still under Eisenhower. He joined the Nixon administration as secretary of commerce from 1969 to 1972. In 1961, Stans was one of the founders of the African Wildlife Foundation.

Watergate

Watergate scandal
The Watergate complex in 2006
Events
List Presidency of Richard Nixon Timeline Nixon White House tapes Operation Sandwedge Operation Gemstone 1972 presidential election "Saturday Night Massacre" Impeachment process against Richard Nixon United States v. Nixon Resignation speech Inauguration of Gerald Ford
People
Watergate burglars Bernard Barker Virgilio Gonzalez Eugenio Martínez James W. McCord Jr. Frank Sturgis
Groups Master list of Nixon's political opponents Nixon's Enemies List Watergate Babies Watergate Seven White House Plumbers
CRP Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP) Fred LaRue Jeb Stuart Magruder Robert Mardian John N. Mitchell Kenneth Parkinson Hugh W. Sloan Jr. Maurice Stans
White House Richard Nixon Alexander Butterfield Charles Colson John Dean John Ehrlichman Gerald Ford H. R. Haldeman E. Howard Hunt Egil Krogh G. Gordon Liddy Gordon C. Strachan Rose Mary Woods
Judiciary Archibald Cox Leon Jaworski John Sirica
Journalists Carl Bernstein Bob Woodward Barry Sussman Harry M. Rosenfeld Howard Simons Ben Bradlee Katharine Graham Lesley Stahl The Washington Post
Intelligence community Mark Felt ("Deep Throat") L. Patrick Gray Richard Helms James R. Schlesinger
Congress Howard Baker Sam Ervin Peter W. Rodino U.S. Senate Watergate Committee Impeachment process
Related Frank Wills (security guard) James F. Neal (prosecutor) All the President's Men (book, film) The Final Days (book, film) Blind Ambition (miniseries) Dick (1999 film) Mark Felt: The Man who Brought Down the White House (2017 film) Watergate (2019 board game) Slow Burn (2020 series) Gaslit (2022 series) White House Plumbers (2023 miniseries)
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In mid-February 1972, Stans resigned as the secretary of commerce to chair the Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP), Richard Nixon's re-election campaign. Money that he raised for the campaign was clearly used to finance some of the illegal Watergate activities. Stans denied any knowledge of what the money was used for, only that it was authorized to be spent.

On March 12, 1975, Stans pleaded guilty to three counts of violating the reporting sections of the Federal Election Campaign Act and two counts of accepting illegal campaign contributions. He was fined $5,000. The convictions were related to improperly giving campaign funds to G. Gordon Liddy, though Stans insisted that his guilt ended there and that he was not aware of Liddy's plan to use the money for what became the Watergate break in.

He later authored a book, The Terrors of Justice: The Untold Side of Watergate, in which he detailed his side of the Watergate story. Stans also wrote a book called "One of the Presidents' Men: Twenty Years With Eisenhower and Nixon" about his time serving in the Cabinets of two different presidential administrations.

Personal life

Stans died at the Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California, on April 14, 1998, at age 90, from complications of congestive heart failure.

References

De Nederlandsche leeuw. Koninklijk Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde. 1969. pp. k. 217–218.
^ "Maurice Stans papers". Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
"Biography of Maurice H. Stans". Ohio State University.
"Membership in Accounting Hall of Fame". Ohio State University Fisher. Archived from the original on 2016-07-14. Retrieved 2014-10-20.
"1973 Watergate Hearings; 1973-06-13; Part 1 of 3". Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (WGBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. June 13, 1973. Retrieved January 19, 2018. Episode Guide
Bonner, Raymond (1993). At the hand of man: peril and hope for Africa's wildlife. Knopf. pp. 56–57. ISBN 0-679-40008-7.
"Watergate case of 'misguided loyalty' -- Maurice Stans". UPI. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
^ David Rohde (1998-04-15). "Maurice Stans Dies at 90; Led Nixon Commerce Dept". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-03-24.
ELIZABETH WHARTON (June 14, 1982). "Watergate case of 'misguided loyalty' -- Maurice Stans". upi.com.

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Political offices
Preceded byPercival Brundage	Director of the Bureau of the Budget 1958–1961	Succeeded byDavid E. Bell
Preceded byCyrus Smith	United States Secretary of Commerce 1969–1972	Succeeded byPeter Peterson

v t e United States Secretaries of Commerce
Secretaries of Commerce and Labor	Cortelyou Metcalf Straus Nagel
Secretaries of Commerce	Redfield Alexander Hoover Whiting Lamont Chapin Roper Hopkins Jones Wallace Harriman Sawyer Weeks Strauss Mueller Hodges Connor Trowbridge Smith Stans Peterson Dent Morton Richardson Kreps Klutznick Baldrige Verity Mosbacher Franklin Brown Kantor Daley Mineta Evans Gutierrez Locke Bryson Pritzker Ross Raimondo

v t e Directors of the United States Office of Management and Budget
Charles G. Dawes Herbert Lord Clawson Roop Lewis W. Douglas Daniel W. Bell Harold Smith James Webb Frank Pace Frederick Lawton Joseph Dodge Rowland Hughes Percival Brundage Maurice Stans David E. Bell Kermit Gordon Charles Schultze Charles Zwick Robert P. Mayo George Shultz Caspar Weinberger Roy Ash James Thomas Lynn Lance James T. McIntyre David Stockman James Miller Jon Wright Richard Darman Leon Panetta Alice Rivlin Franklin Raines Jack Lew Mitch Daniels Joshua Bolten Rob Portman Jim Nussle Peter R. Orszag Jack Lew Sylvia Mathews Burwell Shaun Donovan Mick Mulvaney Russell Vought Shalanda Young

Cabinet of President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961)

Cabinet
Vice President	Richard Nixon (1953–1961)
Secretary of State	John Foster Dulles (1953–1959) Christian Herter (1959–1961)
Secretary of the Treasury	George M. Humphrey (1953–1957) Robert B. Anderson (1957–1961)
Secretary of Defense	Charles Erwin Wilson (1953–1957) Neil H. McElroy (1957–1959) Thomas S. Gates Jr. (1959–1961)
Attorney General	Herbert Brownell Jr. (1953–1957) William P. Rogers (1957–1961)
Postmaster General	Arthur Summerfield (1953–1961)
Secretary of the Interior	Douglas McKay (1953–1956) Fred A. Seaton (1956–1961)
Secretary of Agriculture	Ezra Taft Benson (1953–1961)
Secretary of Commerce	Sinclair Weeks (1953–1958) Frederick H. Mueller (1959–1961)
Secretary of Labor	Martin Patrick Durkin (1953) James P. Mitchell (1953–1961)
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare	Oveta Culp Hobby (1953–1955) Marion B. Folsom (1955–1958) Arthur Flemming (1958–1961)

Cabinet-level
Director of the Bureau of the Budget	Joseph Dodge (1953–1954) Rowland Hughes (1954–1956) Percival Brundage (1956–1958) Maurice Stans (1958–1961)
Ambassador to the United Nations	Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1953–1960) James Jeremiah Wadsworth (1960–1961)
Director of the Mutual Security Agency	Harold Stassen (1953)
Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization	Arthur Flemming (1953–1957) Gordon Gray (1957–1958)
Administrator of the Federal Civil Defense Administration	Val Peterson (1953–1957) Leo Hoegh (1957–1958)
Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization	Leo Hoegh (1958–1961)
Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission	John A. McCone (1958–1961)
White House Chief of Staff	Sherman Adams (1953–1958) Wilton Persons (1958–1961)
White House Deputy Chief of Staff	Wilton Persons (1953–1958) Gerald D. Morgan (1958–1961)
White House Cabinet Secretary	Maxwell M. Rabb (1954–1958) Robert Keith Gray (1958–1961)

Cabinet of President Richard Nixon (1969–1974)

Cabinet
Vice President	Spiro Agnew (1969–1973) None (1973) Gerald Ford (1973–1974)
Secretary of State	William P. Rogers (1969–1973) Henry Kissinger (1973–1974)
Secretary of the Treasury	David M. Kennedy (1969–1971) John Connally (1971–1972) George Shultz (1972–1974) William E. Simon (1974)
Secretary of Defense	Melvin Laird (1969–1973) Elliot Richardson (1973) James R. Schlesinger (1973–1974)
Attorney General	John N. Mitchell (1969–1972) Richard Kleindienst (1972–1973) Elliot Richardson (1973) William B. Saxbe (1974)
Postmaster General	Winton M. Blount (1969–1971)
Secretary of the Interior	Wally Hickel (1969–1970) Rogers Morton (1971–1974)
Secretary of Agriculture	Clifford M. Hardin (1969–1971) Earl Butz (1971–1974)
Secretary of Commerce	Maurice Stans (1969–1972) Peter G. Peterson (1972–1973) Frederick B. Dent (1973–1974)
Secretary of Labor	George Shultz (1969–1970) James Day Hodgson (1970–1973) Peter J. Brennan (1973–1974)
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare	Robert Finch (1969–1970) Elliot Richardson (1970–1973) Caspar Weinberger (1973–1974)
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	George W. Romney (1969–1973) James Thomas Lynn (1973–1974)
Secretary of Transportation	John A. Volpe (1969–1973) Claude Brinegar (1973–1974)

Cabinet-level
Director of the Bureau of the Budget	Robert P. Mayo (1969–1970)
Director of the Office of Management and Budget	George Shultz (1970–1972) Caspar Weinberger (1972–1973) Roy Ash (1973–1974)
Ambassador to the United Nations	Charles Yost (1969–1971) George H. W. Bush (1971–1973) John A. Scali (1973–1974)
Counselor to the President	Arthur F. Burns (1969) Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1969–1970) Bryce Harlow (1969–1970) Robert Finch (1970–1972) Donald Rumsfeld (1970–1971) Anne L. Armstrong (1973–1974) Dean Burch (1974) Kenneth Rush (1974)

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