Henry Lewis Stimson State of Residency: New York Appointment: Mar 5, 1929 Entry on Duty: Mar 28, 1929 Termination of Appointment: Mar 4, 1933 Presidency: Hoover

As Secretary of State

• Chairman of the American Delegation to the London Naval Conference in 1930

• Formulated the "Stimson Doctrine" with regard to Japanese activities in China

Foreign Travels of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson

Foreign Relations of the United States:
1929 (vol. 1-3), 1930, 1931 (vol. 1-3), 1932, 1933 (vol. 1-5), 1933-1939 (Soviet Union)

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Born: September 21, 1867
Died: October 20, 1950Z
Married: Mabel Wellington White
Education: Yale University; Harvard University; Harvard Law School
Occupation: Lawyer

Government Positions

• United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York 1906-1909

• Secretary of War In President Taft's Cabinet 1911-1913 and in the Cabinets of Presidents Roosevelt and Truman 1940-1945

• Delegate at Large to the New York State constitutional convention of 1915

• Served in the United States Army in France 1917-1918; attaining the rank of colonel

• Special representative of the President to Nicaragua in 1927

• Governor General of the Philippe Islands 1927-1929

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