Herbert Pell

Herbert Claiborne Pell, Jr. ( born February 16, 1884 in New York City; † July 17, 1961 in Munich) was an American diplomat and politician of the Progressive Party and the Democratic Party, among other things, the state of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives representing.

Life

Pell came from a politically influential family. His great-grandfather John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne was a congressman for the state of Mississippi. He was also a great-grandnephew of William CC Claiborne, a governor of Mississippi and Louisiana as well as U.S. Senator for Louisiana and great-grandnephew of Nathaniel Claiborne, the Congressman for Virginia was. His own son Claiborne Pell was finally for 36 years of democratic U.S. Senator for Rhode Iceland.

Herbert Pell studied after visiting the Pomfret School in Connecticut at Harvard University and Columbia University. His political career began first in the Progressive Party and was in this 1912-1914 member of the Party committee at the Orange County of New York State. He subsequently moved to the Democratic Party and was elected for this in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he represented the 17th Congressional District of New York on 4 March 1919 to 3 March 1921. After 1920 election defeat suffered and had to resign from the Congress, he was from July 1921 to January 1926 Chairman of the Democratic Party committees in New York State as well as a delegate to the 1924 Democratic National Convention.

After that Pell was occasionally Lecturer at Columbia University, Harvard University and other higher education institutions as well as 1936 Vice - Chairman of the Democratic campaign Commission ( Democratic National Campaign Committee ), which organized the successful re-election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the U.S. presidential election in 1936.

Subsequently, he was first on May 27, 1937 the United States ambassador in Portugal, before he then became the successor of John Flournoy Montgomery Ambassador to Hungary on 11 February 1941. A post he held until his resignation on November 30, 1942 after the declaration of war, Hungary and the freezing of diplomatic relations. Later Pell was between August 1943 and January 1945 the U.S. representative in the United Nations War Crimes Commission ( UNWCC ).

Background literature

  • Leonard Baker: Brahmin in Revolt; A Biography of Herbert C. Pell. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1972
  • Michael Steward Blayney: diplomat and humanist: The Diplomatic Career of Herbert Claiborne Pell. Ph.D. Dissertation, Washington State University, 1973
  • Michael Steward Blayney: Democracy 's Aristocrat: The Life of Herbert C. Pell. University Press of America. 1986
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