Steuart Lansing Pittman, Sr. of Dodon

1919 - 2013  (93 years)

• Name	Steuart Lansing Pittman
  Suffix	Sr. of Dodon
  Born	6 Jun 1919	Albany, Albany, New York, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	10 Feb 2013	Davidsonville, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA
  Person ID	I22347	Brown Genealogy
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2024

  
  

  Father	Ernest Wetmore Pittman, of Dodon,   b. 19 Dec 1889, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA ,   d. 15 Apr 1970  (Age 80 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Estelle Young Romeyn,   b. 4 May 1894, New York, New York, USA ,   d. 17 Apr 1970, Long Island City, Queens, New York, USA  (Age 75 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	23 Oct 1915	New York, New York, USA
  Family ID	F7581	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Barbara White,   b. 5 Sep 1933, Montclair, Essex, New Jersey, USA ,   d. UNKNOWN, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
  Children	1. Living Pittman  [natural]
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2024
  Family ID	F7582	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Washington Post, 14 Feb 2013 "Mr. Pittman spent nearly his entire career as a lawyer with the Washington firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge. A veteran of government commissions, he rose to national attention in 1961 when [President John F] Kennedy named him assistant secretary of defense in charge of civil defense. After graduating from Yale University in 1941, the younger Pittman worked in Asia for a subsidiary of Pan American World Airways that delivered supplies to the Flying Tigers, the U.S. volunteers fighting alongside the Chinese against Japan. Mr. Pittman joined the Marine Corps after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and served alongside Chinese guerrillas. He received the Silver Star for his actions while commanding a Chinese junk in the East China Sea that came under enemy fire shortly after the Japanese surrender in 1945. The commander of the enemy junk - ultimately defeated - apparently did not know, or could not bring himself to believe, that the war was over. Mr. Pittman received a law degree from Yale in 1948 and worked in Washington as a government lawyer assigned to the Marshall Plan for postwar economic recovery in Europe. In 1954, he helped found Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge (now Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw & Pittman). His specialties included aviation law and international investment finance and trade. Mr. Pittman retired about 25 years ago, but he maintained an office at the law firm until his death. He resided on Dodon Farm, a 550-acre tract in Davidsonville founded by his family six generations earlier, and presided over the property for decades. His first marriage, to the former Antoinette Pinchot, ended in divorce. She later was married to and divorced from Benjamin C. Bradlee, the former executive editor of The Post. Survivors include his wife of 54 years, Barbara White Pittman of Dodon Farm and Washington; four children from his first marriage, Andrew Pittman of Bethesda, Nancy Pittman Pinchot of New Haven, Conn., Rosamond Pittman Casey of Charlottesville and Tamara Pittman of New York City; three children from his second marriage, Patricia Pittman, Steuart Pittman Jr. and Romey Pittman, all of Dodon Farm; and 15 grandchildren." (Washington Post, 14 Feb 2013) He married twice and had children from both marriages. The rest of his family are not shown here.