Lefever, Ernest W. (1919- ).

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Birth 1919-11-12
Death 2009-07-29
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Ernest Warren Lefever was born on November 12, 1919, in York, Pennsylvania. He was educated at Elizabethtown College, where he graduated with an A.B. in 1942. In 1945, he received a B.D. from Yale University, where he continued to study, receiving a Ph.D. in 1956. Lefever has worked in international affairs for nearly his entire life, beginning in the years following World War II, when he was a field secretary in Europe for the World's Alliance of YMCAs. Over the course of the next two decades, Lefever worked in international affairs at the National Council of Churches (1952-1954), Johns Hopkins University (1955-1956, 1960-1961), the University of Maryland (1956-1957), the Library of Congress (1957-1959), and for Senator Hubert Humphrey (1959-1960). Between 1964 and 1976, he was a member of the senior staff of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institute. In 1976, he helped found and became president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He remained president until 1989, when he became a senior fellow. He has been an adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Reagan. Lefever has written, co-authored, or edited twenty books and has frequently written articles for many of America's leading newspapers and magazines.

From the guide to the Ernest Warren Lefever papers, 1947-1948, (Manuscripts and Archives)

Biographical Note

1919 Nov. 12 Born, York, Pennsylvania 1945 1948 Field Secretary, World Alliance of Young Mens' Christian Associations, United Kingdom and West Germany 1952 1954 International affairs specialist, National Council of Churches 1956 1957 Faculty, Department of Government, University of Maryland 1957 Author, Ethics and U.S. Foreign Policy 1957 1959 Research staff, Acting Head, Foreign Affairs Division, Library of Congress 1959 1960 Foreign affairs staff, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey 1960 Author, Profile of American Politics 1960 1961 Research Associate, Washington Center for Foreign Policy Research, Johns Hopkins University 1961 1964 Senior Staff, Institute of Defense Analyses, Washington 1962 Editor, Arms and Arms Control 1964 1976 Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institute 1965 Author, Crisis in the Congo 1967 Author, Uncertain Mandate: Politics of the U.N. Congo Operation 1970 Author, Spear and Scepter: Army, Policy and Politics in Tropical Africa 1972 Author, Ethics and World Politics 1974 Author, TV and National Defense: An Analysis of CBS News 1976 Founder and President, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C. 1977 Author, Morality and Foreign Policy 1979 Author, Amsterdam to Nairobi: The World Council of Churches and the Third WorldAuthor, Nuclear Arms in the Third World: U.S. Policy DilemmaEditor, Will Capitalism Survive? 1980 Author, The CIA and the American Ethic 1981 Designate, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs 1982 Author, The Apocalyptic Premise 1983 Author, Scholars, Dollars and Public Policy

From the guide to the Ernest W. Lefever papers, 1933-2007, (Hoover Institution Archives)

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  • Conscientious objectors
  • Military assistance, American
  • Nuclear energy
  • Nuclear weapons
  • Pacifism
  • Police training
  • Religion and international affairs
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
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  • Congo (Democratic Republic) (as recorded)
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  • Africa. (as recorded)
  • Germany (West) (as recorded)
  • Europe (as recorded)
  • Germany (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)