George Hubbard Blakeslee, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

George Hubbard Blakeslee

professor of history and international relations

Date of Birth: 27-Aug-1871

Date of Death: 05-May-1954

Profession: historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About George Hubbard Blakeslee

  • George Hubbard Blakeslee (August 27, 1871 – May 5, 1954) was an academic, professor of history and international relations at Clark University, and a founder (along with G.
  • Stanley Hall) of the Journal of Race Development, the first American journal devoted to international relations.
  • This journal was later renamed the Journal of International Relations, which in turn was merged with Foreign Affairs.
  • Born in Geneseo, New York, he was the brother of the botanist Albert Francis Blakeslee.
  • Having graduated from Wesleyan University (A.B.1893, A.M.
  • 1897 ), George Blakeslee then studied at Leipzig University and Oxford University between 1901 and 1903.
  • He received his Ph.D.
  • from Harvard University in 1903.
  • He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1908.Blakeslee participated in a number of international bodies: the Washington Disarmament Conference of 1921, the Lytton Commission of 1931-32, and in 1942 led the Far Eastern Unit that was a subcommittee of the Advisory Committee on Post-War Foreign Policy at the State Department.
  • This unit, though its designation changed several times before the US occupation of Japan, led to the post-World War II Far East Commission on which he served.
  • He was also a member of the board of trustees of the World Peace Foundation. He died at Worcester, Massachusetts in 1954.
  • He was buried in the Rural Cemetery.

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