Joseph E. Davies

Joseph Edward Davies ( born November 29, 1876 in Watertown, Jefferson County, Wisconsin, † May 9, 1958 in Washington DC) was an American lawyer and diplomat.

From 1915 to 1916 he was under President Woodrow Wilson Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. After the end of World War II, he was a government consultant at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Between 1937 and 1938 he served as United States ambassador in Moscow, after which he held that post for a year in Brussels.

In his 1941 book " Mission to Moscow " Davies told about his service in the Russian capital. In 1943, the book under the title Ambassador was filmed in Moscow, directed by Michael Curtiz.