\"American Diplomat\" James Clement Dunn Signed 3X5 Card For Sale

Up for sale "American Diplomat" James Clement Dunn Signed 3X5 Card. This lot includes the transmittal leteer signed by the Ambassadors secretary. 

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James Clement Dunn (December 27, 1890

– April 10, 1979) was an American diplomat and a career employee of the United States Department

of State. He served as the Ambassador of the United States to Italy, France, Spain, and Brazil. He had lived in Rome since his retirement in 1956. Born

in Newark, on December 27 of 1890, and privately educated, Dunn at first wanted

to become an architect, an interest that remained with him all his life. In

1917 he became assistant naval attaché to Haiti. In 1920, he was made a third

secretary at the embassy in Spain, a post he held for two years. He was chargé

d'affaires in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1922-24. After other assignments, he

became a first secretary at the American embassy in London. From 1928-1930 he

served as the first person to hold the office of Chief of

Protocol of the United States. In 1930-35, served as counsel to the

Commission for the Study of Haiti. Dunn was chief political adviser to the

Berlin Conference in 1945; deputy at the American meetings of the Council of

Foreign Ministers in London, Paris and New York in 1945-46. When

representatives from 50 nations convened in San Francisco in April to June 1945

to form the United Nations Dunn 'worked hard behind the scenes to create a

pro-French consensus' and to protect France's colonial interests in French

Indochina. He was once called a 'fascist' by Eleanor Roosevelt for his views on colonial matters. In 1946 he was a member

of the delegation at the Paris Peace Conference. Dunn was a governor of the

Metropolitan Club and a member of the Knickerbocker Club, the River Club, the

Regency Club and the Whist Club in New York, and of the Alibi Club in Chevy

Chase, Md. Ambassador Dunn retired from the Service in 1956 with the rank of

Career Ambassador. He died in Florida in 1974. Dunn was survived by

his wife, the former Mary Augusta Armour; two daughters Marianna Dunn of Manhattan

and Cynthia Esterlechner of West Germany; three grandchildren and nine

great-grandchildren.