Nitze, Paul H.

Biographical Note

• 1907, Jan. 26: Born, Amherst, Mass.
• 1928: B.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1928 - 1929 : Accountant, Container Corp. of America, Bridgeport, Conn.
• 1929 - 1938 : Investment banker, Dillon, Read and Co., New York, N.Y.
• 1932: Married Phyllis Pratt (died, 1987)
• 1938 - 1939 : President, P. H. Nitze and Co., New York, N.Y.
• 1939 - 1941 : Vice president, Dillon, Read and Co., New York, N.Y.
• 1941 - 1942 : Financial director, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, State Department, Washington, D.C.
• 1942 - 1943 : Chief, Metals and Minerals Branch, Board of Economic Warfare
• 1943 - 1944 : Director, Foreign Procurement and Development Branch, Foreign Economic Administration
• 1943: Founded School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. (Renamed Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, 1989.)
• 1944 - 1946 : Vice chairman, United States Strategic Bombing Survey
• 1946 - 1948 : Deputy director, Office of International Trade Policy, State Department
• 1948 - 1949 : Deputy to assistant secretary of state for economic affairs
• 1950 - 1953 : Director, policy planning staff, State Department
• 1953: Appointed special assistant to secretary of defense; resigned amid Congressional opposition
• 1953 - 1961 : President, Foreign Service Educational Foundation, Washington, D.C.
• 1961 - 1963 : Assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs
• 1963 - 1967 : Secretary of the Navy
• 1967 - 1969 : Deputy secretary of defense
• 1969 - 1974 : Member, United States delegation, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
• 1974 - 1981 : Consultant, Washington, D.C., for State Department, General Accounting Office, and System Planning Corp., Arlington, Va.
• 1976: Organized Committee on the Present Danger
• 1981 - 1984 : Ambassador, head of United States delegation, intermediate-range nuclear forces talks, United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
• 1984 - 1989 : Ambassador-at-large and special advisor on arms control matters to the president and secretary of state
• 1985: Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
• 1989: Published with Ann M. Smith and Steven L. Rearden From Hiroshima to Glasnost: At the Center of Decision, a Memoir. New York: Grove Weidenfeld
• 1993: Married Elisabeth Scott Porter Published Tension Between Opposites: Reflections on the Practice and Theory of Politics. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
• 2004, Oct. 19: Died, Washington, D.C.

From the guide to the Paul H. Nitze Papers, 1922-1998, (bulk 1946-1996), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)