Hull Cordell

  • Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955
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  • Hull, Cordell
Identifier
000188
Type of Entity
Person

Dates of Existence

02/10/1871

1955

History

United States secretary of state from 1933 to 1944. Had limited information about the persecution of the Jews in Germany but declined to intercede in what he regarded as Germany's internal affair. Hull opposed any relaxation of American immigration regulations during the war. Laid the groundwork for a postwar United nations.

Places

  • Star Point, United States, Tennessee

Sources

  • Biographical dictionary of World War II / Boatner III, Mark M. - Novato, CA : Presidio Press, 1996. - p. 243

  • Encyclopedia of the Holocaust / ed. I. Gutman. - New York : Macmillan, 1990. - Vol. 2, p. 693