Curated category
20th-century American diplomats
- George H. W. BushOn the 9th of June 1943, George Herbert Walker Bush became one of the youngest pilots ever commissioned in the United States Navy, a distinction that would…
- Jimmy CarterJames Earl Carter Jr. was born on the 1st of October 1924, in the small town of Plains, Georgia. He entered the world at the Wise Sanitarium where his mother…
- Henry KissingerHeinz Alfred Kissinger was born on the 27th of May 1923 in Fürth, Bavaria. His family lived under Nazi rule when he was nine years old and Adolf Hitler…
- James BakerJames Addison Baker III arrived at 1216 Bissonnet Street in Houston on the 28th of April 1930. His father James A. Baker Jr held a partnership at the law…
- George H. W. BushOn the 12th of June 1943, a young man named George Herbert Walker Bush stood on the deck of the USS San Jacinto. He was only nineteen years old and had just…
- George F. KennanGeorge Frost Kennan arrived in the world on the 16th of February 1904, within a household in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His father was Kossuth Kent Kennan, a…
- Walter Bedell SmithWalter Bedell Smith was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on the 5th of October 1895. He grew up as the elder of two sons to William Long Smith and Ida Francis…