Green, Joseph Coy, 1887-1978.

Joseph Coy Green was a history scholar and diplomat. Born in 1887 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Green graduated from Princeton University in 1908. He became a fellow in Princeton’s history department after graduation and returned to the university in 1920 as a professor in the history and politics departments. He left Princeton for a position at the United States Department of State, where he worked between 1930 and 1952. He was appointed Ambassador to Jordan in 1952. Green died in 1978.

From the guide to the Joseph Coy Green Papers, circa 1907-1977, 1931-1953, (Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections)