Courtney Letts de Espil Papers 1925-1994 (bulk 1930-1949)

Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., 1891-1967

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Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (1891-1967), neighbor and life-long friend of Franklin D. Roosevelt, served under Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt as Conservation Commissioner of the State of New York from 1929 to 1933. He was also Chairman of the Advisory Commission on Agriculture, and member of the Taconic State Park Commission. Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Morgenthau served as Chairman of the Federal Farm Board from March to May 1933, as Governor of the Farm Credit Administration from May to No...

Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965

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Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. Raised in Bloomington, Illinois, Stevenson was a member of the Democratic Party. He served in numerous positions in the federal government during the 1930s and 1940s, including the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Federal Alcohol Administration, Department of the Navy, and the State Department. In 1945, he served on the committee that created the United Nations, and he was a me...

Letts De Espil, Courtney, 1899-1995

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Writer and wife of the Argentine ambassador to the United States (1933-1943). Married first Wellesley H. Stillwell; second John Borden; third Felipe A. Espil; and fourth Foster Adams. Born 1899; died 1995....

Wallace, Ilo Browne, 1888-1981

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Ilo Wallace (née Browne; March 10, 1888 – February 22, 1981) was the wife of Henry A. Wallace, the 33rd U.S Vice President. She was the Second Lady of the United States from 1941 until 1945. She was the sponsor of the battleship USS Iowa. Born in Indianola, Iowa, she was the daughter of James Lytle Browne and his wife, the former Harriet Lindsay. She attended Simpson College before transferring to study voice at Drake University. She married Henry Agard Wallace in Des Moines, Iowa, on M...

Bush, George, 1924-2018

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George Herbert Walker Bush (1924-2018) was Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1992. He was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts, to Dorothy Walker Bush and Prescott Bush (who was a Republican Senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1962). He graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts on his 18th birthday, June 12, 1942. That same day, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy as a Seaman 2nd Class. Receiving ...

Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948

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Charles Evans Hughes Sr. (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was an American statesman, Republican Party politician, and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was also the 36th Governor of New York, the Republican nominee in the 1916 presidential election, and the 44th United States Secretary of State. Born to a Welsh immigrant preacher and his wife in Glens Falls, New York, Hughes pursued a legal career in New York City. After working in private practice for several ye...

Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965

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Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was an American politician, journalist, and farmer who served as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, the 33rd vice president of the United States, and the 10th U.S. Secretary of Commerce. He was also the presidential nominee of the left-wing Progressive Party in the 1948 election. The oldest son of Henry C. Wallace, who served as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1921 to 1924, Henry A. Wallace was born in Adair County, Iowa in...

Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961

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Benjamin Sumner Welles (1892-1961) graduated from Harvard University in 1914 and began his diplomatic career in 1915 as Secretary of the United States Embassy in Tokyo. From 1917 to 1919 he served in a similar post in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was Assistant Chief of the Latin American Affairs Division of the Department of State from 1920 to 1921, and Chief of the Division from 1921 to 1922. From 1922 to 1925, he was Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to the Dominican Republic, an...

Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969

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Journalist. From the description of Papers of Drew Pearson, 1947-1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 74986025 Andrew Russell "Drew" Pearson (1897-1969) was a journalist who traveled extensively as a foreign correspondent for several newspapers, including the Baltimore Sun. In 1931, Pearson and Robert S. Allen anonymously co-authored a book entitled Washington Merry-Go-Round, with gossip about the Washington, D.C. higher-ups, President Herbert Hoover, and Congress. In 1932, ...

Welles, Mathilde, -1949

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Saavedra Lamas, Carlos, 1878-1959

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Carlos Saavedra Lamas (b. Nov. 1, 1878, Buenos Aires, Argentina–d. May 5, 1959, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an academic, politician, and the first Latin American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize (1936). He attended the University of Buenos Aires and later taught law and history at the University of La Plata. Saavedra Lamas was a leading academic in fields of labor legislation and international law. His career in politics began in politics in 1906. He was elected to Parliament (1908), and served...

Berle, Beatrice Bishop, 1902-1993

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Krock, Martha

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Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894-1972

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Hughes, Antoinette

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Vandenberg, Hazel, -1950

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Berle, Adolf A., Jr., 1895-1971

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George Washington Corner worked as an anatomist, endocrinologist, and medical historian. From the guide to the George Washington Corner papers, 1889-1981, 1903-1982, (American Philosophical Society) Adolf Augustus Berle (1895-1971) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the second of four children of Dr. Adolf Augustus and Mary Augusta (Wright) Berle. He graduated from Harvard College in 1913, after majoring in history, and received his M.A, degree the following year. In 1916 at...

Hull, Frances, -1954

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Perón, Juan Domingo, 1895-1974

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President of Argentina, 1946-1955. From the description of Juan Domingo Perón papers, 1931-2002. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872368 Biographical Note 1895 Born, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina 1911 1937 Enters military school, and ...

Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955

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Cordell Hull was a Tennessee state representative (1893-1897), a judge of the fifth judicial circuit of Tennessee (1903-1906), U.S. Representative for Tennessee (1907-1921, 1923-1931), chairman of the Democratic National Executive Committee (1921-1924), U.S. Senator for Tennessee (1931-1933), Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1944), and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945. From the description of Cordell Hull letter, 1941 Dec. 12. (Loui...

Espil, Felipe A., 1887-

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Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952

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Lawyer and U.S. secretary of the interior. From the description of Harold L. Ickes papers, 1815-1969 (bulk 1933-1951). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980130 Harold Ickes (1874-1952) was a United States administrator and politician. He served as Secretary of the Interior for 13 years, from 1933 to 1946, the longest tenure of anyone to hold the office, and afterwards he became a syndicated columnist writing on political topics. From the guide to the Harold Ickes ...

Windsor, Wallis Warfield, Duchess of, 1896-1986

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Wallis Warfield Simpson Windsor (1896-1986), wife of Edward, Duke of Windsor. From the description of Windsor, Wallis Warfield, Duchess of, 1896- (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10580490 ...

Vandenberg, Arthur H. (Arthur Hendrick), 1884-1951

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U.S. Senator from Michigan (1928-1951). From the description of Arthur H. Vandenberg papers, 1936-1941. (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 620820101 Republican member of the U.S. Senate from Michigan, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and delegate to the United Nations Conference in San Francisco in 1945. From the description of Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg visual materials series [microform]. ca. 1896-1950. (University of Michigan). Wo...

Krock, Arthur, 1886-1974

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Krock, a journalist, was editor-in-chief of the Louisville (Ky.) Times (1919-23), assistant to the president of the New York World (1923-27), member of the board of the New York Times from 1927 until his retirement, and a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board of the Columbia University School of Journalism (1940-53). From the description of Arthur Krock papers, 1909-1974 (bulk 1920-1968) (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 77805948 Principal political writer and...

Morgenthau, Elinor, 1892-1949

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Elinor Morgenthau (b. February 19, 1892-d. September 21, 1949) was born in New York City to of Lisette Lehman and Morris Fatman. Her granddfather was Mayer Lehman, a co-founder of Lehman Brother. She graduated from Vassar College with a degree in theater in 1913 and taught acting at the Henry Street Settlement. She married Henry Morgenthau, Jr. in 1915 and settled in Dutchess County, New York where her husband became involved in local politics and operated a farm which they named Fishkill Farms....