LC control no. | n 50022542 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Stettinius, Edward R., Jr. (Edward Reilly), 1900-1949 |
Variant(s) | Stettinius, Edward Reilly, 1900-1949 Stettinius, Ėdvard, 1900-1949 |
Birth date | 1900-10-22 |
Death date | 1949-10-31 |
Place of birth | Chicago (Ill.) |
Place of death | Greenwich (Conn.) |
Affiliation | General Motors Corporation United States Steel Corporation United States. War Resources Board United States. Office of Production Management United States. Department of State United Nations University of Virginia |
Found in | Author's The selection and development of executives ... 1937. NUCMC data from LOC, Mss. Div. for Rosenwald, L.J. Papers, 1819-1980 (Edward R. Stettinius) WwWA, 1943-50 (Stettinius, Edward R., Jr.; 1900-1949; former Sec. State; s. Edward R. & Judith (Carrington) S.; m. Virginia Gordon Wallace; exec. U.S. Steel; chmn. War Resources Board, Lend Lease Admin.; Sec. State, 1944-45; US rep. to UN; mem. Roosevelt Party at Yalta Big 3 Mtg.; rector. Univ. Va.; res.: Culpepper, Va.) Zagadki lenz-liza, 2000: p. [5] (Ėdvarda Stettiniusa) United Nations will write charter for world organization, 1945: cover (Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Secretary of State) The diaries of Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., 1943-1946, 1975 Miller Center, University of Virginia, via WWW, December 2, 2013 (American President: A Reference Resource; Edward R. Stettinius Jr. (1944-1945): Secretary of State; Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr. was born October 22, 1900 in Chicago, Illinois; he attended the University of Virginia from 1919 to 1924 but never graduated; Stettinius began his career as a laborer at General Motors but by 1931 had become vice president in charge of industrial and public relations; he left GM to serve as chairman of the board for U.S. Steel (1938) before Roosevelt appointed him chairman of the War Resources Board in 1939; Stettinius also served as director of priorities in the Office of Production Management (1941), head of the Lend-Lease program with Great Britain (1942), and undersecretary of state (1943-1944); he then served as secretary of state from 1944 to 1945; after Roosevelt's death, Stettinius was replaced by Senator James Byrnes and appointed U.S. representative to the United Nations (1945-1946) by President Truman; after resigning from government, Stettinius became elector rector of the University of Virginia (1946-1949); he died on October 31, 1949 in Greenwich, Connecticut) |
Associated language | eng |