Edward G. Miller
Edward Godfrey Miller, Jr. (born September 27, 1911 in San Juan , Puerto Rico , † April 15, 1968 in New York City ) was an American attorney and diplomat who was Assistant Secretary of State for , among other things, between 1949 and 1952 Inter-American Affairs at the State Department was.
Life
Edward Godfrey Miller, Jr., son of the Puerto Rican sugar factory engineer Edward Godfrey Miller and Nora Elizardi Miller, began an undergraduate degree at Yale University in 1929 after attending St. Paul's School in Concord and graduated in 1933 with a bachelor's degree of Arts (BA). There, the future mayor of New York City Robert F. Wagner, Jr. and the later long-time judge at the US District Court for the Southern District of New York Charles Henry Tenney were among his fellow students. A subsequent postgraduate study of law at Harvard University he completed in 1936 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). After his legal admission to the Bar of New York (New York Bar Association) , he began his professional career in 1936 in the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell , where he initially worked to 1941st
In 1941 Miller joined the US State Department , where he was deputy head of the department for control of foreign funds until 1942 and special assistant to the US ambassador to Brazil Jefferson Caffery between 1942 and 1943 , before he was special assistant to the deputy secretary of state from 1944 to 1946 ( United States Under Secretary of State ) Joseph Clark Grew or his successor Dean Gooderham Acheson was. During this time he was a member of the US delegation to the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 , at which the international monetary order with exchange rate ranges was re-established after the Second World War , and in 1945 at the San Francisco Conference , at which the United Nations Charter was worked out. In addition, he was committed to the Council on Foreign Relations .
After Edward G. Miller 1947-1949 first partner of the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell , he was on 28 June 1949 as a successor to Spruille Braden Deputy Director General Inter-American Affairs ( Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs ) in the US State Department, which at the time was headed by Secretary of State Dean Acheson. He held this office until December 31, 1952, before John Moors Cabot took over on March 3, 1953. He was then partner of Sullivan & Cromwell again from 1953 to 1958 and partner of the investment bank Lazard Freres & Company between 1958 and 1960 . From 1960 to 1964 he was a partner in the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and, most recently, between 1967 and his death in 1968, he was a consultant at the law firm Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle .
His marriage to Carol H. Prichitt on February 3, 1939 and divorced in 1967 resulted in two daughters. He has received several awards for his many years of service, including the National Order of the Southern Cross of Brazil , the Grand Cross of the Order of Boyacá of Colombia , the Grand Cross of the Colombian Order of San Carlos, the Order of Rubén Darío of Nicaragua and the National Order of Honor and Merit of Haiti .
Web links
- Entry on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
- Entry in prabook.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Assistant Secretaries of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Miller, Edward G. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Miller, Edward Godfrey, Jr. (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American diplomat and lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Juan , Puerto Rico |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1968 |
| Place of death | New York City |