Samuel Spencer was a Harvard educated lawyer who practiced law with the firm Spencer, Graham and Holderman. In 1953 he was appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the Board of Commissioners, the three-member board which was the governing body of Washington D.C. in the 1950s. During his board tenure, Mr. Spencer oversaw the integration of the public schools and the creation of the medical facilities that would later become the Washington Hospital Center. Mr. Spencer also served on several corporate boards including the Tennessee Railroad Co., the Southern Railway and Riggs National Bank. Before receiving his Harvard Law degree in 1935, Mr. Spencer attended Sidwell Friends School, St. Albans School for Boys, the Milton Academy and Harvard University. He served in the Navy during World War II. As commander of the destroyer escort Oberender he participated in the battles of Leyte, Lingayen and Okinawa. Mr. Spencer received a Bronze Star for getting his badly damaged ship back to port after it was hit by a kamikaze plane. Mr. Spencer married 1) Dora White (who died in 1980) and 2) June Byrne. He was survived by his widow, three children (from his first marriage): Henry B. Spencer of Chevy Chase, Janet S. Dougherty of Philadelphia, Richard Spencer of Portland, Maine; his sister Violet Thoron of Washington, nine grandchildren and four-great-grandchildren.
Source: The Washington Post, March 26, 1997, Page B6.
Source: The Washington Post, March 26, 1997, Page B6.
Samuel Spencer was a Harvard educated lawyer who practiced law with the firm Spencer, Graham and Holderman. In 1953 he was appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the Board of Commissioners, the three-member board which was the governing body of Washington D.C. in the 1950s. During his board tenure, Mr. Spencer oversaw the integration of the public schools and the creation of the medical facilities that would later become the Washington Hospital Center. Mr. Spencer also served on several corporate boards including the Tennessee Railroad Co., the Southern Railway and Riggs National Bank. Before receiving his Harvard Law degree in 1935, Mr. Spencer attended Sidwell Friends School, St. Albans School for Boys, the Milton Academy and Harvard University. He served in the Navy during World War II. As commander of the destroyer escort Oberender he participated in the battles of Leyte, Lingayen and Okinawa. Mr. Spencer received a Bronze Star for getting his badly damaged ship back to port after it was hit by a kamikaze plane. Mr. Spencer married 1) Dora White (who died in 1980) and 2) June Byrne. He was survived by his widow, three children (from his first marriage): Henry B. Spencer of Chevy Chase, Janet S. Dougherty of Philadelphia, Richard Spencer of Portland, Maine; his sister Violet Thoron of Washington, nine grandchildren and four-great-grandchildren.
Source: The Washington Post, March 26, 1997, Page B6.
Source: The Washington Post, March 26, 1997, Page B6.
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