Frederick Huff Payne

Frederick Huff Payne was the United States [Assistant Secretary of War] from 1930 to 1933, under President Herbert Hoover.

Biography

Payne was born on November 10, 1876, in Greenfield, Massachusetts, to Samuel Brewer Payne and Eva Caroline Huff. He married Mary Blake on November 8, 1900, in Parsons, Kansas. They had three children — Frederick Huff, Groverman Blake, and Carolyn Huff.
He was the United States Assistant [Secretary of War] from 1930 to 1933. He was promoted to a colonel in 1932. He died on March 24, 1960, in Greenfield, Massachusetts, at the home of his son, Groverman Payne. He was buried in Green [River Cemetery] in Greenfield, Massachusetts