Tyler Dennett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Tyler Dennett

American historian

Date of Birth: 13-Jun-1883

Place of Birth: Spencer, Wisconsin, United States

Date of Death: 29-Dec-1949

Profession: historian, biographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Tyler Dennett

  • Tyler Dennett (June 13, 1883 Spencer, Wisconsin – December 29, 1949 in Geneva, New York) was an American historian and educator, best known for his book John Hay: From Poetry to Politics (1933), which won the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. In 1900, Dennett enrolled at Bates College and then transferred to Williams College as a sophomore.
  • After his graduation in the spring of 1904 and a year of work in Williamstown, Massachusetts he attended the Union Theological Seminary, where he was awarded a diploma in 1908.
  • He served briefly as a Congregational minister before leaving to pursue a career in journalism. In 1922, he published Americans in Eastern Asia, a study of American policy in the Far East, which was well received and was long held as an important work in the field.
  • Dennett published "President Roosevelt's Secret Pact with Japan" in 1924, the subject of which came to be known as the Taft–Katsura Agreement.
  • The paper put forth the thesis that formerly-isolationist Japan and the US began to carve up their spheres of influence, which would later become world empires, with the agreement, which was therefore of first-class importance historically.
  • Later historians questioned that interpretation.Dennett was awarded a Ph.D.
  • in history from Johns Hopkins University in 1925 after doing research on Theodore Roosevelt and the Russo-Japanese War. He taught American history at Johns Hopkins University (1923–24) and at Columbia University (1927–28), and international relations at Princeton University (1931–34).
  • Dennett served as president of Williams College (1934–37), resigning after a disagreement with the college's board of trustees.He died in 1949. Among his numerous scholarly writings were The Democratic Movement in Asia (1918) and A Better World (1920).

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