Benjamin Bruce Wallace (Rhodes 1904)
Pembroke College, Oxford University, Rhodes Scholar.
Dr Wallace was a pioneer of congressional reform. He took the initial steps in the Washington Chapter of the Association which led to appointment of its standing Committee on Congress in 1941.[2]
Dr Wallace deeply believed in the need for fundelmental reforms in our national legislature, especially liberating it from errand-running and local pressures. Almost his last act was to collorate with Stanly High in an article entitled “A New Chance for the New Congress,” which appeared in the Dec, 1946, issue of the Reader’s digest…..lived to see the passage and adoption of the Legislative Reorganisation Act of 1946.[2]
Had planned to attend the Geneva Trade Conferenece in the Spring of 1947.
On the eve of his death, he showed his deep affection for the Chinese people by suggesting, as a last wish, that his friends, instead of sending funeral flowers, contribute to the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China.[2]
1946 - Member of the Mission of Japanese Combines otherwise known as the Zaibatsu Mission, sent to Japan by the State and War Departments. 2
1938 - First wife died, Katherine Sellye Wallace.[2]
1937 to his death - Advisor on Foreign Trade Policies, Division of International Relations at the U.S. Tariff Commission by Franklin D. Roosevelt (Freemason).[2]
1931 to 1933 - Associated with the Office of Economic Adviser in the Department of State, Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson (S&B 1888) by President Herbert Hoover (Bohemian). [International Relations at the U.S. Tariff Commission]
1929 to 1931 - His interest in China Stemmed from the years he spent there as a member of the Kemmerer mission to China and as advisor to the Chinese ministry of finance.[2]
1922 to 1937 - Chief of Division of International Relations at the U.S. Tariff Commission[2] by President Warren G. Harding (Freemason).
1913 to 1918 - Taught Political Science at Northwestern University.[2]
Died 5 Jan 1947, from Not Known. Age 64.
Note:
[2] - The American Political Science Review - Benjamin Bruce Wallace
[3] - Find a Grave - Benjamin Bruce Wallace (Rhodes 1904)
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