Eugenie Anderson

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Eugenie Anderson (1960)

Helen Eugenie Moore Anderson (birth name: Helen Eugenie Moore * 26. May 1909 in Adair , Iowa , † 31 March 1997 in Red Wing , Minnesota ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party and diplomat , the 1949-1953 Ambassador in Denmark , after Ruth Bryan Owen , who was ambassador to Denmark between 1933 and 1936, was the second woman to head a US diplomatic mission and the first woman to hold the rank of ambassador to the United States . She was later also envoy to Bulgaria from 1962 to 1964 .

Life

Interview with Eugenie Anderson (1951)

Helen Eugenie Moore, daughter of Methodist clergyman Ezekiel Arrowsmith Moore and his wife Flora Belle McMillen Moore, attended Stephens College in Columbia from 1926 to 1927 , Simpson College in Indianola between 1927 and 1928, and Carleton College in Northfield from 1929 to 1930 . On October 26, 1930, she married John Pierce Anderson and took his name. After the end of the Second World War , she began her political engagement in the Democratic Party and was vice-chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (Minnesota DFL) between 1946 and 1949 . She was also 1948 delegate for Minnesota at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), the party convention of the Democratic Party, and from 1948 to 1949 for Minnesota also a member of the Democratic National Committee , the leading body of the party.

On October 20, 1949, Eugenie Anderson was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Denmark , where she presented her letter of accreditation on December 22, 1949 . After Ruth Bryan Owen , who was ambassador to Denmark between 1933 and 1936, she was the second woman to head a US diplomatic mission and the first woman to hold the rank of ambassador to the United States . She remained in this post until January 19, 1953 and was then replaced by Robert Douglas Coe . She was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Dannebrog for her services to US-Danish relations . In 1960 she was again a delegate for Minnesota at the Democratic National Convention. She was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Minister to Bulgaria on May 28, 1962 , and handed over her credentials there on August 3, 1962 as the successor to Edward Page, Jr. She held this position until December 6, 1964 and was then replaced by Nathaniel Davis .

Eugenie Anderson was also a member of various organizations such as the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), League of Women Voters (LWV), Pi Beta Phi and the American Association of University Women (AAUW). Her marriage to John Pierce Anderson had a son and a daughter. She was buried in Burnside Cemetery in Red Wing after her death .

Web links

  • Entry on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Eugenie Anderson in the nndb (English)
  • Entry in The Political Graveyard

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Denmark on the website of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  2. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Bulgaria on the site of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Eugenie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anderson, Helen Eugenie (full name); Moore, Helen Eugenie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Adair , Iowa
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1997
Place of death Red Wing , Minnesota