McCloy, John J. (John Jay), 1895-1989

Variant names
Dates:
Birth 1895-03-31
Death 1989-03-11
Birth 1895
Birth 1895-03-31
Death 1989-03-11
Gender:
Male
Americans,
German, English, German, English,

Biographical notes:

John Jay McCloy (March 31, 1895 – March 11, 1989) was an American lawyer, diplomat, banker, and a presidential advisor. He served as Assistant Secretary of War during World War II under Henry Stimson, helping deal with issues such as German sabotage, political tensions in the North Africa Campaign, and opposing the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the war, he served as the president of the World Bank, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Warren Commission, and a prominent United States adviser to all presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan.

Today, he is best remembered as a member of the foreign policy establishment group of elders called "The Wise Men", a group of statesmen marked by nonpartisanship, pragmatic internationalism, and aversion to ideological fervor.

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Subjects:

  • Arms control
  • Banks and banking
  • Banks and banking
  • Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989
  • Cabinet officers
  • Communism
  • Communism
  • Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
  • Disarmament
  • Disarmament
  • Endowments
  • Energy policy
  • Energy policy
  • German Americans
  • Government executives
  • Japanese Americans
  • Japanese Americans
  • Lawyers
  • Negotiation
  • Nuclear energy
  • Nuclear energy
  • Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946
  • Petroleum industry and trade
  • Petroleum law and legislation
  • Presidents
  • Presidents
  • Presidents
  • World War, 1914-1918
  • World politics
  • World War, 1914-1918 Secret service
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Banks and banking
  • Communism
  • Disarmament
  • Energy policy
  • Japanese Americans
  • Nuclear energy
  • Presidents
  • Presidents
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945

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  • CT, US
  • Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) (as recorded)
  • Panama Canal (Panama) (as recorded)
  • Berlin (Germany) (as recorded)
  • Soviet Union (as recorded)
  • Canada (as recorded)
  • Germany (as recorded)
  • Panama Canal (Panama) (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Germany (West) (as recorded)
  • Berlin (Germany) (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Germany (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Germany (as recorded)
  • Germany (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Egypt (as recorded)
  • Iran (as recorded)
  • Soviet Union (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Germany (West) (as recorded)
  • Suez Canal (Egypt) (as recorded)
  • Iran (as recorded)
  • Egypt (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Suez Canal (Egypt) (as recorded)
  • New York (as recorded)

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