biography
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| (1871–1955)
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| biography:
| US statesman, born in Overton Co, Tennessee, USA. He studied at Cumberland University, Tenessee, qualified as an attorney, then entered politics, becoming a member of the US House of Representatives (1907–21, 1923–31). Under Franklin Roosevelt he became secretary of state in 1933, and served for the longest term in that office until he retired in 1944, having attended most of the great wartime conferences. He was a strong advocate of maximum aid to the Allies. One of the architects of ‘bipartisanship’, he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945. |
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