Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., U.S. ambassador to the United Nations
Date
1946Medium
Black and white pastel on brown paperCredit Line
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015Dimensions
14 3/4 x 20 1/8 in.Description & Inscriptions
[upper right with guidelines all in black pastel]: Violet / Oakley / 1946; [bottom right between horizontal lines in black pastel over white pastel "plaque"]: United States
After a rapid rise through the ranks first of General Motors and then of US Steel, Edward R. Stettinius Jr. served as US Secretary of State from 1944 until 1945, overseeing the end of World War II and the creation of the UN. He chaired the US delegation to the 1945 San Francisco Conference that brought 50 nations together to create the UN, and he became the first US Ambassador to the organization, a post he held until his resignation in June 1946 over what he saw as President Harry S. Truman's refusal to use the UN as a forum to resolve growing Soviet-American tensions.
After a rapid rise through the ranks first of General Motors and then of US Steel, Edward R. Stettinius Jr. served as US Secretary of State from 1944 until 1945, overseeing the end of World War II and the creation of the UN. He chaired the US delegation to the 1945 San Francisco Conference that brought 50 nations together to create the UN, and he became the first US Ambassador to the organization, a post he held until his resignation in June 1946 over what he saw as President Harry S. Truman's refusal to use the UN as a forum to resolve growing Soviet-American tensions.
