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{{Infobox Officeholder
| name                = George Edward Akerson
| image               = George Akerson NBC.jpg
| imagesize           = 215px
| order               = 1st
| office              = White House Press Secretary
| term_start          = March 4, 1929
| term_end            = January 2, 1931
| president           = [[Herbert Hoover]]
| predecessor         = Office Created
| successor           = [[Theodore Goldsmith Joslin]] 
| birth_date = {{birth date|1889|9|5|mf=y}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1937|12|21|1889|9|5|mf=yes}}
| birth_place         = [[Minneapolis, Minnesota|Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]], [[USA]]
| death_place         = [[New York City]], [[New York]], [[USA]]
}}
'''George Edward Akerson''' (September 5, 1889 &ndash; December 21, 1937) was an [[Americans|American]] [[journalist]] and politician. He was the first official [[White House Press Secretary]].

Akerson was born in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]] on September 5, 1889. He studied at the [[University of Minnesota]] and [[Allegheny College]]. In 1910 Akerson started at [[Harvard University]], later receiving a [[Bachelor's Degree|BA]] in [[Political Science]] in 1912.

Akerson married Harriet Blake, a [[Wellesley College]] graduate, on June 28, 1915. They had three sons.

Akerson developed kidney disease. He died on December 21, 1937 in [[New York City]], New York, aged 48.

==Further reading==
* Moffett, L. W. "Akerson, Hoover's Right Hand Man, Surely Is The Boy Who Made Good." ''The Shield of Phi Kappa Psi'' (December 1929), pgs. 113-121.
* "G. E. Akerson Dies; Ex-Aide to Hoover." ''New York Times'' (Dec. 22, 1937), pg. 25.

==Other websites==
* [http://www.whitehousehistory.org/03/subs_press/02.swf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071004214651/http://www.whitehousehistory.org/03/subs_press/02.swf |date=2007-10-04 }}
* [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=22676] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303224432/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=22676 |date=2016-03-03 }}

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