Vernon D. Acree | |
Office: | 11th Commissioner of the United States Customs Service |
President: | Richard Nixon Gerald Ford |
Term Start: | May 2, 1972 |
Term End: | April 30, 1977 |
Predecessor: | Myles Ambrose |
Successor: | Robert E. Chasen |
Birth Name: | Vernon Darrell Acree |
Birth Date: | 25 June 1919 |
Birth Place: | Washington, D.C. |
Death Place: | Fairfax, Virginia |
Party: | Republican |
Vernon D. Acree (June 25, 1919 – February 1, 2013) was an American administrator who served as Commissioner of the United States Customs Service from 1972 to 1977.[1] [2] He served in the United States Army during World War II.
He died of pneumonia on February 1, 2013, in Fairfax, Virginia at age 93.[3]