Warren Austin

Warren Robinson Austin ( born November 12, 1877 in Highgate Center, Vermont, † December 25, 1962 in Burlington, Vermont) was an American diplomat and politician.

Biography

After attending Brigham Academy in Bakersfield, he studied from 1895 to 1899 Law at the University of Vermont in Burlington and then worked as a lawyer. At times he was a member of the board of the American Law Association (American Judicature Society). His political career began in Austin, a member of the Republican Party was in 1909 with the election of the mayor of the city of St. Albans. He served from 1914 to 1941 as curator of the University of Vermont and was in 1917 briefly judge at the United States Court for China, a federal court with jurisdiction over living in China U.S. citizens.

1931 Austin was the successor of Frank C. Partridge U.S. Senator and acted as such until 1946, the interests of Vermont in the United States Senate. 1947 he was appointed by U.S. President Harry S. Truman as ambassador to the United Nations in New York. This office he held until the end of Truman's term of office in 1953, when he was replaced by Henry Cabot Lodge Jr..

Austin was his life also involved social and socio-politically and among other things since 1922 member of the Rotary Club of Burlington. In 1931 he became a member of the American - Hellenic Society of advanced education (American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association). Later, he became in 1932 a member of the Alfalfa Club, an exclusive club in Washington DC and, in 1938, also based in the Washington alibi clubs.