Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Former FCC Commissioner Washburn dies

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:40:42 -0500

Former FCC Commissioner Washburn dies
December 19 12:47:00, 2003

WASHINGTON—Former FCC Commissioner Abbott McConnell Washburn, 88, died Dec. 11
of complications following a stroke, it was
announced Thursday.

Washburn, who served on the Federal Communications Commission from 1974 to 1982,
was a supporter of mobile telephony and
advocated creating a spectrum allocation for this purpose.

Longtime telecommunications policy-makers mourned Washburn's death Friday. “He
was a wonderful man of high ideals,” said
former FCC Chairman Richard Wiley, who said he spoke with Washburn just prior to
his stroke. Wiley served as FCC chairman until
1977.

In addition to serving at the FCC, Washburn served in the White House Office of
Telecommunications Policy during the Nixon
administration. He also held many government broadcasting-related posts.

He graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 1937 and served in the Navy
assigned to the Office of Strategic Services in
Europe during World War II.

His marriage to Mary Brennan Washburn ended in divorce, but two sons from this
marriage survive him. Wanda Allender Washburn, his wife of 40 years, a daughter
and four grandchildren also survive him.

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