Christian Archibald Herter State of Residency: Massachusetts Appointment: Apr 21, 1959 Entry on Duty: Arp 22, 1959 Termination of Appointment: Jan 20, 1961 Presidency: Eisenhower

As Secretary of State

• Served as a trade negotiator in the administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson

Foreign Travels of Secretary of State Christian Herter

Foreign Relations of the United States:
1958-1960 (vol. 1-19), 1961-1963 (vol. 1-24)

FRUS online 1959-1961

Profile
Born: March 28, 1895
Died: December 30, 1966
Married: Mary Caroline Pratt
Education: Harvard
Occupation: Public Official

Government Positions

• Attache' to U.S. Embassy in Berlin 1916-1917; and for two months in charge of U.S. legation in Brussels

• Served in the Department of State from 1917-1919

• Secretary, U.S. Commission to Negotiate Peace, Paris 1918-1919

• Personal assistant to Secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover 1919-1924

• Executive secretary of the European Refief council 1920-1921

• Massachusetts House of Representatives 1931-1943; Speaker of that body, 1939-1943

• Representative to the U.S. Congress 1943-1953

• Head of a House select committee that helped pave the way for the Marshall Plan

• Governor of Massachusetts from 1953-1957

• Under Secretary of State 1957-1959

Notable Events