Ellis Loring Dresel papers

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Ellis Loring Dresel papers

1879-1926

Chiefly contains correspondence during Dresel's diplomatic service in Europe during and after World War I. Major correspondents include William Richards Castle, Joseph Clark Grew, Hugh Gibson, Henry Remsen Whitehouse, Henry Cabot Lodge, Boylston A. Beal, Geoffrey Drage, André L. Picard, and Allen Welsh Dulles. Also includes correspondence of the American Red Cross, the War Trade Board in Berne, and the U.S. State Department; correspondence and statements of the U.S. Embassy in Vienna and the U.S. Bureau of Accounts; military and economic reports; photographs; and miscellaneous material.

12 boxes (6 linear ft.)

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 6805012

Houghton Library

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Beal, Boylston Adams, 1865-1944

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Beal was a lawyer of Boston, Mass. From the description of Letters from various correspondents, 1871-1940. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122609232 ...

United States. Department of State

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The Department of Foreign Affairs was established by an act of July 27, 1789 (1 Stat. 28) and redesignated the Department of State by an act of September 15, 1789 (1 Stat. 68). It was the agency of the United States created by law to assist the President in the formulation and execution of the Nation's foreign policy, and in the conduct of foreign affairs and of certain domestic affairs. The Department made plans for peace and security among all nations, participated in the United Nations and o...

Drage, Geoffrey, 1860-....

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Grew, Joseph C. (Joseph Clark), 1880-1965

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Grew was a U.S. diplomat and author. He was attached to embassies in Egypt, Mexico, Russia, Germany, and Austria (1904-1916); secretary-general to the U.S. delegation at the Paris Peace Conference; minister to Denmark (1920) and to Switzerland (1921-1923); negotiator at the Lausanne Conference on Near Eastern Affairs (1922-1923); under secretary of state (1924-1927, 1944-1945); ambassador to Turkey (1927-1932) and to Japan (1932-1941); special assistant to the secretary of state (1942); and dire...

Gibson, Hugh, 1883-1954

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American diplomat; ambassador to Poland, 1919-1924; ambassador to Switzerland, 1924-1927; ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg, 1927-1933 and 1937-1938; ambassador to Brazil, 1933-1937. From the description of Hugh Gibson papers, 1900-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868920 Hugh Gibson (1883-1954), career diplomat, was Ambassador to Belgium and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Luxemburg from 1927 to 1933, and observer on Herbert Hoover's Famine Emer...

Picard, André L.

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Boyden, Roland William 1863-1931

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Roland William Boyden (1863-1931), lawyer and statesman. He received an A.B. degree from Harvard College in 1885, and an L.L.B. from Harvard Law School in 1888. He maintained numerous Harvard University connections over the years, including chairman of the Board of Directors of the Harvard-Yenching Institute and a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers from 1924-1930. In November of 1917, President Herbert Hoover chose Boyden to head the legal enforcement division of t...

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924

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Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) was born into a prominent Boston family in 1850. Through his mother’s family, the Cabots, Lodge traced his lineage back to the 17th century, with one great-grandfather a leading Federalist during the Revolutionary period. Growing up in both an intellectual and privileged household, "Cabot" took naturally to academic subjects, particularly history and literature. Beyond his early devotion to scholarly pursuits, Lodge also enjoyed numerous sports and the great outdoor...

Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969

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Allen W. Dulles, nephew of Robert Lansing, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State, and brother of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, was a lawyer, foreign-service officer, and intelligence official. He served with the United States Office of Strategic Services in Bern, Switzerland during World War II, during which he penetrated the German Foreign Ministry Office and the "July 1944" anti-Hitler conspirators. In 1947 he helped draft the National Security Act, which created the Central Intelligenc...

Castle, William R. (William Richards), 1878-1963

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William Richards Castle, Jr. (1878-1963), Harvard graduate, was Ambassador to Japan during period of Naval Arms Conference, London, in 1930, and Undersecretary of State from 1931 to 1933. From the description of Castle, William R. (William Richards), 1878-1963 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10570910 William Richards Castle (1878-1963), AB 1900, was an American diplomat. He served in the Department of State as chief of the Division of Western Europ...

Whitehouse, H. Remsen (Henry Remsen), 1857-

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American Red Cross

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On December 2, 1905, Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen brought together a group of Brooklyn residents at the Barnard Club House on Remsen Street to form New York City's first borough-based Red Cross organization. With an initial membership roster of 300, the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross embarked on its first major campaign to aid victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, collecting over $100,000 and thousands of articles of clothing to contribute to the relief effort. From this point on, th...

Paris Peace Conference 1919-1920

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War Trade Board (Berne, Switzerland).

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United States. Embassy (Austria)

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Dresel, Ellis Loring, 1865-1925

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Dresel was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was attaché to the U.S. embassy in Berlin in charge of relations between British prisoners of war and the German government (1915-1917); settled the affairs of the U.S. embassy in Vienna after the U.S. entry into the war; worked with the American Legation, its War Trade Board, and the American Red Cross in Berne, Switzerland (1917-1918); headed the political information section of the Paris Peace Conference (1919), for which he made two inspection ...