Buell, Raymond Leslie, 1896-1946

Variant names
Dates:
Birth 1896-07-13
Death 1946-02-21
Britons,
English,

Biographical notes:

Epithet: President Foreign Policy Association USA

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x0000bd

Educator, lecturer, and publicist; active in international affairs.

From the description of Raymond Leslie Buell papers, 1915-1981 (bulk 1920-1946). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014557

Biographical Note

1896, July 13 Born, Chicago, Ill. 1918 A.B., Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif. 1918 1919 Sergeant of ordnance, American Expeditionary Forces 1919 Student, University of Grenoble, Isere, France; wrote Contemporary French Politics 1920 M.A., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. 1920 1921 Assistant professor of history and economics, Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif. 1922 Ph.D., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. 1922 1925 Instructor in government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 1925 1926 Investigated political conditions in Africa, Bureau of International Research, Harvard University and Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass. 1926 1927 Assistant professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 1927 1939 Research director, 1927-1933, and president, 1933-1939, Foreign Policy Association 1928 Married Frances March Dwight Representative of Foreign Policy Association, Pan American Conference, Havana, Cuba Published The Native Problem in Africa (New York: Macmillan Co. 2 vols.) 1934 Chairman, Commission on Cuban Affairs 1934 1935 Cofounder and research advisor, National Policy Committee 1935 1936 Director, Geneva Research Center, Geneva, Switzerland 1938 1942 Advisor and roundtable editor for Time, Inc. 1939 Published Poland: Key to Europe (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 364 pp.) 1940 Published Isolated America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 457 pp.) Foreign affairs adviser to Wendell L. Willkie's presidential campaign 1942 Unsuccessful candidate for Congress, first district of Massachusetts 1942 1946 Foreign affairs advisor to the editors of Time, Life, and Fortune magazines 1946 Died, Montreal, Canada

From the guide to the Raymond Leslie Buell Papers, 1915-1984, (bulk 1920-1946), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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Subjects:

  • Political campaigns
  • Political campaigns
  • Elections
  • Elections
  • International relations
  • Journalism
  • Journalism
  • New Deal, 1933-1939
  • Presidents
  • Presidents
  • Presidents
  • Presidents
  • Reconstruction (1939-1951)
  • Reconstruction (1939-1951)
  • World politics

Occupations:

  • Editors
  • Educators
  • Publicists

Places:

  • Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire (as recorded)
  • Poland (as recorded)
  • Poland (as recorded)
  • Africa (as recorded)
  • Medway Towns, England (as recorded)
  • Gainsborough, Lincolnshire (as recorded)
  • Newquay, Cornwall (as recorded)
  • Europe (as recorded)
  • Czechoslovakia, Europe (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts (as recorded)
  • Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire (as recorded)
  • Africa (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Stockton and Thornaby, North Riding of Yorkshire (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Oswestry, Shropshire (as recorded)

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