caption death_date death_place birth_place image_size birth_date image article_title name occupation
arno b. cammerer 30 april 1941 arlington , virginia arapahoe , nebraska 150px 31 july 1883 arno cammerer.jpg arno b. cammerer
 arno b. cammerer director of the national park service
arno b. cammerer

arno berthold cammerer -lrb- july 31 , 1883 -- april 30 , 1941 -rrb- was the third director of the u.s. national park service .
cammerer was born in arapahoe , nebraska in 1883 .
he was the son of a lutheran pastor .
he went to washington , d.c in 1904 to work as a civil service bookkeeper , and earned a bachelor of law degree at georgetown law school in 1911 .
the u.s. national park service 's first director , stephen mather , recognized cammerer 's competence as executive secretary of the fine arts commission , and appointed him as assistant director in 1919 , replacing previous assistant director horace m. albright , who then became director .
he served as mather 's right-hand man in washington and acted for him in his frequent absences over the next decade .
after the project to found great smoky mountains national park proved expensive , cammerer secured a promise from john d. rockefeller , jr. , to match $ 5 million in the acquisition of shenandoah national park lands .
he advanced to the new rank of associate director on january 12 , 1929 .
