James T. Shotwell

James Thomson Shotwell, (1874 – 1964) was a Canadian-born American history professor. He is perhaps best remembered for his instrumental role in the creation of the [International Labor Organization] in 1919, as well as for his guiding influence promoting inclusion of a declaration of human rights in the UN Charter.

Shotwell attended the Paris Peace conference as a member of "The Inquiry" - President Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy advisory group. After the war he worked tirelessly to counter US isolationism and to promote US entry into the League of Nations. He was director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's division of economics and history (1942–49) and president (1949–50). He attended the 1945 San Francisco Conference that drafted the Charter of the United Nations as a private consultant to the U.S. State Department.

References

Korey, William, NGOs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Curious Grapevine, New York: St Martin's Press, 1998.