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Cordell Hull was an American politician and diplomat who served as the United States secretary of state for nearly twelve years under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, from 1933 to 1944. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the longest-serving secretary of state in United States history. Hull previously represented Tennessee in both houses of the United States Congress for 24 years, first as a m…
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Born 2 October 1871 · Died 23 July 1955 · Q202979
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s proposals violated international law and German sovereignty, but also more importantly created a precedent that could be highly dangerous for himself and other American officials. Lynching of Afro-Americans was a common practice in the South, and Hull noted that under Pell
unless the opposition to the peace element in control of the Government should make up its mind definitively to act and talk and move in a peaceful direction... No conversations could or would get anywhere as has been so clearly demonstrated.
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“s proposals violated international law and German sovereignty, but also more importantly created a precedent that could be highly dangerous for himself and other American officials. Lynching of Afro-Americans was a common practice in the South, and Hull noted that under Pell”
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“unless the opposition to the peace element in control of the Government should make up its mind definitively to act and talk and move in a peaceful direction... No conversations could or would get anywhere as has been so clearly demonstrated.”
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“s second largest economy and as the Nazi regime had extremely strong protectionist tendencies that Morgenthau”
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“s proposal to strengthen the yuan and hence China”
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“I had become greatly interested in Jefferson”
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The Guardian: Jovial Jakirovic determined to haul Hull over and beyond Coles’ relegation jibes
La Vanguardia: Hull City – Manchester United: horario y dónde ver hoy por TV el partido de fútbol de la Premier League
BBC: Hull City v Man Utd: Key stats and talking points
Goal: Previa del partido de la Premier League entre Hull City y Manchester United
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Eurosport: Estadísticas Hull - Manchester United: Resultados Fútbol
Goal: Hull City vs Manchester United: Where to watch, TV channel, live stream & kick-off time | Goal.com US
ESPN: Man United's Michael Carrick wary of 'buzz' at newly-promoted Hull
ESPN: Hull City vs. Man United line-ups: Premier League 2026-27 predicted XIs
Anecdotarios: Hull City y Manchester United juegan su primer encuentro
Sports Illustrated: Man Utd Injury News: Michael Carrick Offers ‘Touch and Go’ Update for Hull Trip
Sports Illustrated: La posible alineación titular del Manchester United para enfrentar al Hull City
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To preserve Hull's birthplace and various personal effects Hull had donated to the citizens of Pickett County, including his Nobel Peace Prize
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Died 1955-07-23.
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“Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.”
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for his indefatigable work for international understanding and his pivotal role in establishing the United Nations.
Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1945).
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For his “pivotal role” in the organization's founding
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In recognition of his efforts for peace and understanding in the Western Hemisphere, his trade agreements, and his work to establish the United Nations
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Hull served as United States delegate to the Moscow Conference
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Hull tried hard to prevent Herbert Pell from serving as the U
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Hull ended Welles's career at the State Department by threatening to expose allegations of his homosexuality dating back to 1941, and Hull threatened to resign if Welles was not let go due to the allegations and possibly
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Roosevelt started to strongly press the British prime minister Winston Churchill to promise independence for India, saying it was time to end the Raj
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Told Lord Halifax, the British ambassador in Washington, about his opposition to independence for "backward peoples" who were in his viewpoint incapable of governing themselves
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Wendell Willkie, the Republican candidate for president in the 1940 election, went on a semi-official and much publicized "one world" tour
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Hull lodged a very strong protest and went as far as referring to the Gaullist naval forces as "the so-called Free French
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Japanese ambassador Kichisaburō Nomura and special envoy Saburō Kurusu met with Hull and Roosevelt in the Oval Office
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Morgenthau said they did not know where the ship was and he inquired whether it was "proper to have the Coast Guard look for it"
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Hull advised Roosevelt to reject the SS St
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Hull engaged in a dialog with Mexican Foreign Minister Eduardo Hay concerning the failure of Mexico to compensate Americans who lost farmlands during agrarian reforms in the late 1920s
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And could not reestablish diplomatic relations with the Kuomintang regime
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That fascism was "the characteristic expressions of great peoples in revolt against the limitations placed upon their national prosperity by their poverty in natural resources
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“the characteristic expressions of great peoples in revolt against the limitations placed upon their national prosperity by their poverty in natural resources.”
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And had gradually devolving powers down to the Filipinos, which Hull stated was the better model for ending European imperialism in Asia
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Roosevelt appointed Hull as Secretary of State, a position in which he became a principal architect of the Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America and a key figure in shaping U
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As Pell argued that Nazi Germany was a criminal state and all of its actions should be treated as criminal
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Hull and the State Department were excluded by Roosevelt under the grounds that Hull as a religious man had too many issues with establishing diplomatic relations with the atheist state
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Career landmark: United States Secretary of State (1933–1944).
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Were the main source of global economic and political instability
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Manchukuo had functioned as a Japanese colony
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Career landmark: United States senator (1931–1933).
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But resigned from it in 1933 to become Secretary of State
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That the Democrats were a party that was "half dry and half wet, half fanatical and half materialistic, half rural and half urban" while in Congress Democratic senators and congressmen spent their time "insulting each ot
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The Democrats had a disastrous national convention where the divisions between the rural "dry" (i
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Career landmark: United States representative (1923–1931).
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Was a very closely guarded secret and the vast majority of Americans had no idea that Roosevelt was confined to a wheelchair
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Supported Wilson's call for the United States to join the League of Nations
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Instead handled talks with Maxim Litvinov, the Soviet foreign commissar
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Voted for the declaration of war against Germany
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Hull married a widow, Rose Frances (Witz) Whitney (1875–1954), of an Austrian Jewish family of Staunton, Virginia
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Hull became convinced the root cause of the war in Europe was protectionism and argued that if Europe had more free trade the war would have been avoided
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The Democrats won the presidency and control of both houses of Congress
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Hull had been strongly opposed to tariffs, which he felt were an unfair burden on the poor farmers of Tennessee he represented
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Graduated from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University with an LL
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Studied at National Normal University (1890).
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Born 1871-10-02.
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