Tracy Voorhees was born on June 30, 1890, in
New Brunswick, New Jersey; graduated from
Rutgers University with a
B.A. degree in 1911 and an
M.A. degree in 1914; received an
LL.B. degree from
Columbia Law School in 1915; was admitted to the
New Jersey bar in 1915, and the
New York bar in 1918. He became a member of the law firm of Satterlee, Canfield and Stone in New York in 1917. He served as assistant to the Director,
Bureau of Imports,
War Trade Board in 1918. He was practicing attorney as a member of the firm of Ewing, Alley and Voorhees from 1919 to 1928 and member of the firm Blake and Voorhees from 1929 to 1942. He served as president of
Long Island College Hospital from 1936 to 1944.{{cite web|accessdate=2008-09-28 He was a commissioned colonel in the United States Army, posted to the
Judge Advocate General's Department in 1942 and detailed to the
Surgeon General's Office as Director of the Legal Division,{{cite book|accessdate=2008-09-28 He served as Under Secretary of the Army, from 22 August 1949 to 24 April 1950. He was vice chairman of the
Committee on Present Danger from 1951 to 1953,
Department of Defense Advisor to the U.S. Mission to the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization with rank of minister and the director for offshore procurement in Europe for the Secretary of Defense from 1953 to 1954. He was a consultant to the Secretary of Defense from 1954 to 1961, was chairman,
President's Committee for Hungarian Refugee Relief from 1956 1957 and served as the President's Personal Representative for
Cuban Refugees, from 1960 to 1961. He was vice chairman of the board of Rutgers University from 1959 to 1965. He died in
Brooklyn, New York. His papers are preserved in Special Collections and University Archives in the Alexander Library of Rutgers University Libraries in New Brunswick. ==Honors==