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Shepardson, Whitney Hart
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Shepardson, Whitney Hart (30.10.1890 - 29.05.1966).
Career:
- 1917 Attorney, US Shipping Board;
- 1918 US Field Artillery;
- 1919 Member, US Peace Commission;
- 1920-1923 with P.N. Gray and Co., New York;
- 1923-1927 International Education Board;
- 1928-1930 President, Bates International Bag Co.;
- 1931-1942 Vice-President, International Railways of Central America;
- 1942 Special assistant to US ambassador, London;
- 1943-1946 Office of Strategic Services;
- 1946-1953 Director, British Dominions and Colonies Fund, Carnegie Corp;
- 1953-1956 President, Free Europe Committee.
While serving in Paris as secretary to the international commission that wrote the Covenant of the League of Nations (Paris Peace Conference), Shepardson helped form an Anglo-American community of individuals attending the peace conference who believed that a continuous study of international relations was desirable.
Shepardson served briefly on the Secretariat of the League of Nations and thereafter worked closely with American internationalists promoting membership. He became treasurer of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and associated with groups friendly toward the League of Nations.