Fox, Edward Whiting

Edward Whiting Fox; born 20 June 1911, King County, Wash.; died 19 May 1996, Ithaca, N.Y.; historian

Edward Whiting Fox; born 1911; died 1996; scholar of European history; B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard University; served as an Assistant Secretary of State for policy analysis during the Truman administration before joining the history faculty at Cornell University where he spent most of his career teaching; Known as "Teddy" in his youth and as "Ed" in later life; 1935, married Elizabeth "Betty" Simon (1910-2004), the oldest daughter of Robert E. Simon and Elsa Weil Simon. Betty graduated from Vassar College in 1931 and received an M.A. from Harvard University in 1932; Edward and Betty had three children: Elizabeth "Betsy" Ann Fox-Genovese, Edward Whiting Fox, Jr., and Rebecca "Becky" Fox.