Alexander Hawthorne "Sandy" Hadden was born in Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 23, 1924 the son of John Alexander Hadden, Sr. & Marianne nee Millikin. He died November 4, 2010 at home in Grafton, Windham co., Vermont, at age 85. He was survived by his wife Susan Heiser Hadden and four children and predeceased by daughter. Betsy.
SANDY'S CHILDREN:
* Kate Hadden, by wife Susan
* John and David Hadden and Jane Geisse by his first wife Shirley O'Brien Morgan
SANDY'S SIBLINGS:
* Elizabeth Alexander
* Dr. John A HADDEN Jr, born June 3, 1923 in Cleveland, died May 31, 1994 in Cleveland at age 70, and was buried in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland.
Sandy attended Hawken School, graduated from Milton Academy in 1942 and went to Yale University in June of 1942. In 1943, he was drafted into the US Army infantry. On his 21st birthday in WWII, while lost behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge, he found and led five men in his company to safety. For this he received a Certificate of Bravery from the US Military. Next he served in Berlin on a detail protecting Truman's "Little White House" during the Potsdam Conference. However, after oversleeping twice in the deep feather beds of the Little White House, he was reassigned to the Berlin Provost Marshall's office to serve as head of the Berlin Transportation District. He was a First Lieutenant when discharged.
After the war, Sandy returned to Yale; attended Case Western Reserve Law School, graduated in 1951 and joined the Baker Hostetler firm in Cleveland. He was involved in a case that took him to Pakistan as part of a team that found the cause of the infamous 1950 explosion in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, of a shipment of mines and dynamite.
Later, Sandy specialized in trial and appellate law, arguing two cases at the United States Supreme Court. From 1964 to 1970 he was General Counsel to the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs. In
1970 he moved to New York to become Secretary-Treasurer and General Council to Major League Baseball under Commissioner Bowie Kuhn and in 1985 was named Deputy Commissioner of Baseball by Commissioner Peter Ueberroth.
Sandy, with his family, revisited some of the WWII sites where he had served in France -and in 1999 his memoir entitled "Not Me: The World War II Memoir of a Reluctant Rifleman" was published.
In Grafton, Vermont, he was a founding member of "O.I.N.K.", The Order of International Noble Knoshers (a club of like-minded local foodies,) and one of the founders of Grafton's cross-country "ski-a-thons". He also served as President of the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club and was a member of Cleveland Tavern Club. In 1970, Sandy moved to New York to become Secretary-Treasurer and General Council to Major League Baseball under Commissioner Bowie Kuhn during which time he was part of several landmark decisions. In 1985, Peter Ueberroth named him Deputy Commissioner of Baseball. He retired in 1986 and lived in the Grafton, Vermont and Sugarloaf Key, Florida. Jr. His funeral was private for family.
Sources: Alexander's obituary, the Brattleboro [VT] Reformer, November 9, 2010; Cleveland Ohio Necrology File; Census Records; etc.
SANDY'S CHILDREN:
* Kate Hadden, by wife Susan
* John and David Hadden and Jane Geisse by his first wife Shirley O'Brien Morgan
SANDY'S SIBLINGS:
* Elizabeth Alexander
* Dr. John A HADDEN Jr, born June 3, 1923 in Cleveland, died May 31, 1994 in Cleveland at age 70, and was buried in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland.
Sandy attended Hawken School, graduated from Milton Academy in 1942 and went to Yale University in June of 1942. In 1943, he was drafted into the US Army infantry. On his 21st birthday in WWII, while lost behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge, he found and led five men in his company to safety. For this he received a Certificate of Bravery from the US Military. Next he served in Berlin on a detail protecting Truman's "Little White House" during the Potsdam Conference. However, after oversleeping twice in the deep feather beds of the Little White House, he was reassigned to the Berlin Provost Marshall's office to serve as head of the Berlin Transportation District. He was a First Lieutenant when discharged.
After the war, Sandy returned to Yale; attended Case Western Reserve Law School, graduated in 1951 and joined the Baker Hostetler firm in Cleveland. He was involved in a case that took him to Pakistan as part of a team that found the cause of the infamous 1950 explosion in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, of a shipment of mines and dynamite.
Later, Sandy specialized in trial and appellate law, arguing two cases at the United States Supreme Court. From 1964 to 1970 he was General Counsel to the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs. In
1970 he moved to New York to become Secretary-Treasurer and General Council to Major League Baseball under Commissioner Bowie Kuhn and in 1985 was named Deputy Commissioner of Baseball by Commissioner Peter Ueberroth.
Sandy, with his family, revisited some of the WWII sites where he had served in France -and in 1999 his memoir entitled "Not Me: The World War II Memoir of a Reluctant Rifleman" was published.
In Grafton, Vermont, he was a founding member of "O.I.N.K.", The Order of International Noble Knoshers (a club of like-minded local foodies,) and one of the founders of Grafton's cross-country "ski-a-thons". He also served as President of the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club and was a member of Cleveland Tavern Club. In 1970, Sandy moved to New York to become Secretary-Treasurer and General Council to Major League Baseball under Commissioner Bowie Kuhn during which time he was part of several landmark decisions. In 1985, Peter Ueberroth named him Deputy Commissioner of Baseball. He retired in 1986 and lived in the Grafton, Vermont and Sugarloaf Key, Florida. Jr. His funeral was private for family.
Sources: Alexander's obituary, the Brattleboro [VT] Reformer, November 9, 2010; Cleveland Ohio Necrology File; Census Records; etc.
Alexander Hawthorne "Sandy" Hadden was born in Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 23, 1924 the son of John Alexander Hadden, Sr. & Marianne nee Millikin. He died November 4, 2010 at home in Grafton, Windham co., Vermont, at age 85. He was survived by his wife Susan Heiser Hadden and four children and predeceased by daughter. Betsy.
SANDY'S CHILDREN:
* Kate Hadden, by wife Susan
* John and David Hadden and Jane Geisse by his first wife Shirley O'Brien Morgan
SANDY'S SIBLINGS:
* Elizabeth Alexander
* Dr. John A HADDEN Jr, born June 3, 1923 in Cleveland, died May 31, 1994 in Cleveland at age 70, and was buried in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland.
Sandy attended Hawken School, graduated from Milton Academy in 1942 and went to Yale University in June of 1942. In 1943, he was drafted into the US Army infantry. On his 21st birthday in WWII, while lost behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge, he found and led five men in his company to safety. For this he received a Certificate of Bravery from the US Military. Next he served in Berlin on a detail protecting Truman's "Little White House" during the Potsdam Conference. However, after oversleeping twice in the deep feather beds of the Little White House, he was reassigned to the Berlin Provost Marshall's office to serve as head of the Berlin Transportation District. He was a First Lieutenant when discharged.
After the war, Sandy returned to Yale; attended Case Western Reserve Law School, graduated in 1951 and joined the Baker Hostetler firm in Cleveland. He was involved in a case that took him to Pakistan as part of a team that found the cause of the infamous 1950 explosion in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, of a shipment of mines and dynamite.
Later, Sandy specialized in trial and appellate law, arguing two cases at the United States Supreme Court. From 1964 to 1970 he was General Counsel to the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs. In
1970 he moved to New York to become Secretary-Treasurer and General Council to Major League Baseball under Commissioner Bowie Kuhn and in 1985 was named Deputy Commissioner of Baseball by Commissioner Peter Ueberroth.
Sandy, with his family, revisited some of the WWII sites where he had served in France -and in 1999 his memoir entitled "Not Me: The World War II Memoir of a Reluctant Rifleman" was published.
In Grafton, Vermont, he was a founding member of "O.I.N.K.", The Order of International Noble Knoshers (a club of like-minded local foodies,) and one of the founders of Grafton's cross-country "ski-a-thons". He also served as President of the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club and was a member of Cleveland Tavern Club. In 1970, Sandy moved to New York to become Secretary-Treasurer and General Council to Major League Baseball under Commissioner Bowie Kuhn during which time he was part of several landmark decisions. In 1985, Peter Ueberroth named him Deputy Commissioner of Baseball. He retired in 1986 and lived in the Grafton, Vermont and Sugarloaf Key, Florida. Jr. His funeral was private for family.
Sources: Alexander's obituary, the Brattleboro [VT] Reformer, November 9, 2010; Cleveland Ohio Necrology File; Census Records; etc.
SANDY'S CHILDREN:
* Kate Hadden, by wife Susan
* John and David Hadden and Jane Geisse by his first wife Shirley O'Brien Morgan
SANDY'S SIBLINGS:
* Elizabeth Alexander
* Dr. John A HADDEN Jr, born June 3, 1923 in Cleveland, died May 31, 1994 in Cleveland at age 70, and was buried in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland.
Sandy attended Hawken School, graduated from Milton Academy in 1942 and went to Yale University in June of 1942. In 1943, he was drafted into the US Army infantry. On his 21st birthday in WWII, while lost behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge, he found and led five men in his company to safety. For this he received a Certificate of Bravery from the US Military. Next he served in Berlin on a detail protecting Truman's "Little White House" during the Potsdam Conference. However, after oversleeping twice in the deep feather beds of the Little White House, he was reassigned to the Berlin Provost Marshall's office to serve as head of the Berlin Transportation District. He was a First Lieutenant when discharged.
After the war, Sandy returned to Yale; attended Case Western Reserve Law School, graduated in 1951 and joined the Baker Hostetler firm in Cleveland. He was involved in a case that took him to Pakistan as part of a team that found the cause of the infamous 1950 explosion in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, of a shipment of mines and dynamite.
Later, Sandy specialized in trial and appellate law, arguing two cases at the United States Supreme Court. From 1964 to 1970 he was General Counsel to the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs. In
1970 he moved to New York to become Secretary-Treasurer and General Council to Major League Baseball under Commissioner Bowie Kuhn and in 1985 was named Deputy Commissioner of Baseball by Commissioner Peter Ueberroth.
Sandy, with his family, revisited some of the WWII sites where he had served in France -and in 1999 his memoir entitled "Not Me: The World War II Memoir of a Reluctant Rifleman" was published.
In Grafton, Vermont, he was a founding member of "O.I.N.K.", The Order of International Noble Knoshers (a club of like-minded local foodies,) and one of the founders of Grafton's cross-country "ski-a-thons". He also served as President of the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club and was a member of Cleveland Tavern Club. In 1970, Sandy moved to New York to become Secretary-Treasurer and General Council to Major League Baseball under Commissioner Bowie Kuhn during which time he was part of several landmark decisions. In 1985, Peter Ueberroth named him Deputy Commissioner of Baseball. He retired in 1986 and lived in the Grafton, Vermont and Sugarloaf Key, Florida. Jr. His funeral was private for family.
Sources: Alexander's obituary, the Brattleboro [VT] Reformer, November 9, 2010; Cleveland Ohio Necrology File; Census Records; etc.
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