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Webster B. Todd

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His wife was also active in New Jersey Republican politics. She was president of the New Jersey Federation of Republican Women from 1946 to 1952. She was elected vice chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1956 and served as a Republican National Committeewoman from 1956 to 1966. In 1983,
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In 1923, he became a partner in the Todd, Robertson, Todd Engineering Corporation, along with his father and his brother, James Todd. The firm was responsible for two projects initiated by the
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and raised four children, all of whom would serve in various elected and appointed offices at the local, state, and federal government levels. Their children were:
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In 1950, Todd retired from business and devoted much of the remainder of his life to Republican politics in New Jersey. He was the state chairman for
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in Paris. He served as chairman of the New Jersey Republican Finance Committee from 1948 to 1953 and from 1973 to 1974. He was chairman of the
293:–1945), a lawyer who served as president of the Todd, Robertson, Todd Construction and Engineering firm and was a New Jersey delegate to the 1137: 352:. In 1928 he formed his own architectural-engineering firm, Todd & Brown Inc, with Joseph O. Brown. He also served as director of the 423: 369: 588: 900: 851: 823: 377: 372:. Upon Eisenhower's election he was appointed director of the Office of Economic Affairs of the United States mission to the 31: 1147: 569: 353: 302: 298: 294: 373: 345: 916: 683: 552: 526: 1066: 472:"JOHN R. TODD DIES; NOTED BUILDER, 77; Former Head of Firm Which Represented Rockefeller in Construction of Center" 325: 256: 228: 161: 731: 1127: 409: 799: 648: 748: 616: 471: 419: 869: 931: 921: 437: 709: 397: 306: 675: 396:
On October 12, 1933, Todd married Eleanor Prentice Schley (1911–1990), daughter of Reeve Schley, in
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Finding aid for the Webster B. Todd Oral History, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
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appointed her to the New Jersey Board of Higher Education, where she served until 1988.
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In 1989, at the age of 89, Todd died of a heart attack at his home in
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Webster Bray Todd Jr. (1938–2021), who served in the
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Index

New Jersey Republican State Committee
John J. Spoltore
David A. Norcross
Charles R. Erdman, Jr.
Nelson G. Gross
Yonkers, New York
Oldwick, New Jersey
Republican
Christine Todd Whitman
Choate Rosemary Hall
Alma mater
Princeton University
Fordham University School of Law
American
Republican Party
New Jersey
New Jersey Governor
Christine Todd Whitman
Yonkers, New York
née
1928
1932
1940 Republican National Conventions
Presbyterian
Summit, New Jersey
Choate Rosemary Hall
Princeton University
Fordham University School of Law
Rockefeller family
Colonial Williamsburg

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