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Eddie Savoy long serving chief messenger to state dept
On March 17 1933 President Roosevelt sent a White House car to pick up Eddie Savoy the diminutive Black man who served 64 years in federal service as chief messenger to the secretary of state and keeper of the secretary’s door. He entered federal work at 14 and retired at 77 after serving 22 secretaries of state. Savoy aided diplomats including Ramsay MacDonald and Arthur Balfour, and World War I departure notices to Austrian diplomats. He was officially retired in 1931 but kept as a personal employee, and was honored posthumously when a Liberty Ship was named for him.
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Franklin D Roosevelt
White House
State Department
Roosevelt
Edward Savoy
Savoy
Eddie
Washington Star
Department
Grover Cleveland
Cleveland Harrison
United States
Ramsas MacDonald
Arthur Balfour David Lloyd George
Prince of Wales
King Albert
Belgium
Congress
Elyra
O Sun
Chronicle-Telegram
Frank B Kellogg
Henry L Stanisom
Cordell Hull
Washington
Baltimore
Chronicle Telegram
Los Angeles
Calif
Los Angeles Times