Gardner Aspinwall Richardson (S&B 1905)
Government. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Alpha Delta Phi.
1948 - Executive Assist to Director General International Refugee Organization.
WW2 - 1941 - First Secretary of the U.S. Embassy (Ambassador Leland B. Morris) in Berlin, Nazi Germany. Note: Hugh Robert Wilson (S&B1906 / CFR) was Ambassador 3 Mar ‘38 to 16 Nov 1938. Herbert Hoover (Bohemian) and Wilson (S&B1906) met with Hitler just prior to Nazi Germany invading Austria on 12 Mar 1938)
WW2 - 1938 to 1947 - First Secretary, to Department of State. Secretrary of States included:
10 Jul 1940 to 21 Sep 1945 - Henry L. Stimson (S&B1888)
4 Mar 1933 to 30 Nov 1944 - Cordell Hull, who sent Jews back on the SS. St. Loius to the Holocaust in 1939, killing an est. 254 and recieved Nobel Peace prize in 1954, for being an underlying force and architect of the United Nations. Deputies included Edward Settinius Jr (Seven Society. Father WW1 WPB and JPM Partner).
1929 to 1933 - Commercial Attaché, Dept Commerce at the American Legation in Vienna, Austria.[2]
1926 to 1929 - Commercial Attaché, Dept Commerce at the American Legation in Athens, Greece.[2]
1926 - Married Dorthea SK Davies
1923 to 1925 - Director for Austria of Commonwealth Fund.[2]
1920 to 1923 - Chief of American Relief Administration to Austria.[2]
1919 to 1920 - Chief of American Relief Administration to Hungary.[2]
WW1 - 1917 to 1918 - U.S. Army officer (Captain) assigned to Intelligence Section, General Headquarters, U.S. Army.[2]
WW1 - 1915 to 1917 - Member, Commission for Relief in Belgium, in charge of Province of Antwerp and District of Valenciennes, France.[2]
WW1 - 1914 to 1915 - Ambulance Field Service.[2]
1912 to 1914 - White, Weld & Company.[2]
1905 to 1912 - Assistant Publisher, Independent Magazine.[2]
1905 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]
Died 22 Jun 1972, from Not Known. Age 88.
[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen
[5] - Find a Grave - Gardner Aspinwall Richardson (S&B 1905)
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