Henry L. Stimson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Henry L. Stimson

United States Secretary of War

Date of Birth: 21-Sep-1867

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 20-Oct-1950

Profession: lawyer, politician, diplomat

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Henry L. Stimson

  • Henry Lewis Stimson (September 21, 1867 – October 20, 1950) was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican Party politician.
  • Over his long career, he emerged as a leading figure in the foreign policy of the United States, serving in Republican and Democratic administrations.
  • He served as Secretary of War (1911–1913) under William Howard Taft, Secretary of State (1929–1933) under Herbert Hoover, and Secretary of War (1940–1945) under Franklin D.
  • Roosevelt and Harry S.
  • Truman. The son of surgeon Lewis Atterbury Stimson, Stimson became a Wall Street lawyer after graduating from Harvard Law School.
  • He served as a United States Attorney under President Theodore Roosevelt, prosecuting several antitrust cases.
  • After being defeated in the 1910 New York gubernatorial election, Stimson served as Secretary of War under Taft.
  • He continued the reorganization of the United States Army that had begun under his mentor, Elihu Root.
  • After the outbreak of World War I, Stimson became part of the Preparedness Movement.
  • He served as an artillery officer in France after the U.S.
  • entered the war.
  • From 1927 to 1929, he served as Governor-General of the Philippines under President Calvin Coolidge. In 1929, President Hoover appointed Stimson as Secretary of State.
  • Stimson sought to limit worldwide naval build-up and helped negotiate the London Naval Treaty to that end.
  • He protested the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, instituting the Stimson Doctrine of non-recognition of international territorial changes that were executed by force.
  • After World War II broke out in Europe, Stimson accepted Roosevelt's appointment to the position of Secretary of War.
  • After the United States entered World War II, Stimson took charge of raising and training 13 million soldiers and airmen, supervised the spending of a third of the nation's GDP on the Army and the Air Forces, helped formulate military strategy, and oversaw the Manhattan Project, which built the first atomic bombs.
  • He supported the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. During and after the war, Stimson strongly opposed the Morgenthau Plan, which would have de-industrialized and partitioned Germany into several smaller states.
  • He also insisted on judicial proceedings against Nazi war criminals, leading to the Nuremberg trials.
  • Stimson retired from office in September 1945 and died in 1950.

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