Edward
Stettinius
was born in Chicago on 22nd October 1900.
He was a student at the University of Virginia before starting work
with the General Motors Corporation in 1924.
In 1934
Stettinius joined the US Steel Corporation where he became chairman
of the board. In May 1940 President Franklin
D. Roosevelt invited
Stettinius to become the head of the new National Defense Advisory
Commission.
After serving
in the Office of Production Management he was appointed Lend-Lease
administrator in January 1941. Appointed under secretary of state
in October 1943 he replaced his boss, Cordell
Hull,
in December 1944.
Stettinius
went with Franklin
D. Roosevelt to
Yalta and was a delegate to the UN Conference
at San Francisco in June 1945. Edward
Stettinius, who also served as US representative to the United
Nations, died in in 1949.
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