James M. Cannon

Jim Cannon
White House Domestic Affairs Advisor
In office
February 28, 1975 – January 20, 1977
PresidentGerald Ford
Preceded byKenneth Reese Cole Jr.
Succeeded byStuart E. Eizenstat
Personal details
Born(1918-02-26)February 26, 1918[1]
Sylacauga, Alabama, U.S.
DiedSeptember 15, 2011(2011-09-15) (aged 93)
Arlington County, Virginia, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
EducationUniversity of Alabama (BS)

James M. Cannon (February 26, 1918 – September 15, 2011) was an American historian, author and former assistant to the President of the United States for foreign affairs during the Gerald Ford administration.[2] Before his work with Ford, he was an aide to the governor of New York and vice president, Nelson D. Rockefeller after a career as a journalist.[3][4] After leaving the White House at the end of the Ford Administration, Cannon became Ford's official biographer, publishing Time and Chance: Gerald Ford's Appointment with History.[3][5]

  1. ^ James M. Cannon at Find a Grave
  2. ^ Shirley Anne Warshaw (March 27, 2013). Guide to the White House Staff. SAGE Publications. p. 309. ISBN 978-1-4522-3432-8 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b "JAMES M. CANNON RESEARCH INTERVIEWS AND NOTES, 1989-94". Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
  4. ^ "JAMES M. CANNON PAPERS, 1974-79". Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
  5. ^ James M. Cannon (1998). Time and Chance: Gerald Ford's Appointment with History. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-08482-8.
    - T. Rees Shapiro (September 17, 2011). "James M. Cannon III, former Newsweek editor and Ford adviser, dies at 93". The Washington Post.