- Warren Austin
Infobox Senator | name=Warren Austin
nationality=American
jr/sr=United States Senator
state=Vermont
party=Republican| term=April 1 1931 –August 2 1946
preceded=Frank C. Partridge
succeeded=Ralph E. Flanders
ambassador_from2=United States
country2= the United Nations
term_start2 =1946
term_end2 = 1953
president2=Harry S. Truman
predecessor2 =Herschel Johnson "(Acting)"
successor2 =Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
date of birth=November 12 ,1877
place of birth=Franklin County,Vermont
date of death=death date and age |1962|12|25|1877|11|12
place of death=Burlington,Vermont
law school=Washburn University , 1952 -
spouse=Mildred Marie Lucas
religion=Congregationalist
footnotes=Warren Robinson Austin (
November 12 ,1877 –December 25 ,1962 ) was an American politician and statesman; among other roles, he served as Senator fromVermont .Born in Highgate Center in Franklin County,
Vermont , he attended public schools,Bakersfield Academy 1, and then theUniversity of Vermont , from which he graduated in 1899. He then studied law and entered practice in 1902. In 1904 he was appointed State's attorney of Franklin County, a position he held for two years.In his first few years in politics, he served in a number of roles, including chairman of the Vermont Republican State Convention in 1908, Mayor of St. Albans in 1909, a delegate to the
Congress of the Mint in 1912, and a member of theUnited States Court for China in 1917. During this period, he also served as aUnited States commissioner (from 1907 to 1915).His rising prominence led to his appointment as a
trustee of the University of Vermont in 1914, a position he would retain until 1941.He also served as a special counsel for Vermont in a dispute over the exact border between Vermont and the neighboring state of
New Hampshire from 1925 to 1937.He was elected to the Senate on
March 31 ,1931 , in a special election called upon the death of former SenatorFrank L. Greene , and took his seat the next day. He went on to win re-election twice (in 1934 and 1940). In the Senate, Austin championed internationalist causes--standing with President Franklin D. Roosevelt on issues such as neutrality and Lend-Lease. [Lysohir, John W., "Warren R. Austin and the Republican Embrace of Internationalism, senior thesis, Middlebury College, April, 2008. ] He resigned onAugust 2 ,1946 , near the end of his last term, in order to accept appointment as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, a position he held untilJanuary 25 ,1953 , when he retired to Burlington.He was a member of a number of organizations and societies, professional and otherwise, including the
American Bar Association , theAmerican Judicature Society , the Loyal Legion, theSociety of the Cincinnati , theFreemasons , theShriners , theOdd Fellows , theRotary Club , andKappa Sigma . In religion he was a CongregationalistChristian . Austin received an LL.D. fromBates College in 1947. Austin is memorialized in a marble tablet in theVermont State House 's hall of Inscriptions at Montpelier, Vermont.References
External links
* [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000342 Official Congressional biography]
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46 Warren Austin] at Find-A-Grave
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,854201-2,00.html Ambassador to the World] TIME magazine article
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