Cordell Hull Diplomacy

Cordell Hull

Cordell Hull was a politician from Tennessee who served as Secretary of State under the F. Roosevelt administration for approximately 11 years and 8 months, the longest tenure in U.S. history. He promoted a "Good Neighbor Policy" toward Central and South America, advancing tariff reductions and free trade to improve foreign relations. He energetically pursued the vision of a post-war international peace organization during World War II, playing a decisive role in establishing the United Nations, which led Roosevelt to praise him as the "Father of the United Nations" and earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945.

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Year	Cordell Hull
1871	Birth of Cordell Hull (Period: October 2, 1871, Location: Near Birdsall, Tennessee, United States (birthplace was Olympus, in what was then Overton County and is now Pickett County))
1893	Election to the Tennessee House of Representatives (Cordell Hull, Age: 21 years old, Period: 1893 to 1897, Location: Tennessee, United States)
1898	Spanish-American War (Age: 26 years old, Period: 1898, Location: Domestic United States. Did not reach overseas battlefields)
1907	Election to the United States House of Representatives (Cordell Hull, Age: 35 years old, Period: 1907 to 1921, 1923 to 1931, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1917	Marriage (Cordell Hull, Rose Frances Witz Whitney, Age: 45 years old, Period: 1917, Location: United States)
1921	Election as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (Cordell Hull, Age: 49 years old, Period: 1921 to 1924, Location: United States)
1931	Election to the United States Senate (Cordell Hull, Age: 59 years old, Period: 1931 to 1933, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1933	Appointment as Secretary of State (Cordell Hull, Age: 61 years old, Period: March 4, 1933, Location: Washington, D.C., United States) Declaration of non-intervention policy at the Montevideo Pan-American Conference (Age: 62 years old, Period: December 1933, Location: Montevideo, Uruguay)
1934	Enactment of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (Age: 62 years old, Period: 1934, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1939	Diplomatic activities during World War II (Age: 67 years old, Period: 1939 to 1944, Location: Washington, D.C., Moscow, Quebec, etc., United States)
1941	Efforts toward the creation of the United Nations (Age: 69 years old, Period: 1941 to 1945, Location: Washington, D.C., San Francisco, etc., United States) Japanese-American negotiations and the Hull Note (Age: 70 years old, Period: November 1941, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1944	Resignation as Secretary of State (Cordell Hull, Age: 73 years old, Period: November 30, 1944, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1945	Nobel Peace Prize award (Cordell Hull, Age: 73 years old, Period: 1945, Location: Oslo, Norway)
1955	Death of Cordell Hull (Age: 83 years old, Period: July 23, 1955)

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The Wilson Family	Thomas Woodrow Wilson Ellen Louise Axson Edith Bolling Galt Wilson James Woodrow
The Roosevelt Administration	Franklin Delano Roosevelt Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Cordell Hull Claude Augustus Swanson Jesse Holman Jones Robert Houghwout Jackson
Southern politician	George Carter Glass James Francis Byrnes Thomas Terry Connally Claude Denson Pepper Alben William Barkley Byron Patton Harrison John Nance Garner

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