biography
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Stimson, Henry L(ewis)
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| lived:
| (1867–1930)
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| biography:
| US statesman, born in New York City, USA. He studied at Yale and Harvard, and was called to the bar in 1891. He became US attorney for the New York southern district in 1906, secretary of war under Taft (1911–13), Governor-General of the Philippines (1927–9), and Hoover's secretary of state (1929–33). The Stimson doctrine denounced Japanese aggression in Manchuria (1931). Recalled by Franklin D Roosevelt as secretary of war (1940–5), his influence was decisive in leading Truman to use the atomic bomb against Japan (1945). |
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