Allen Wardwell

Allen Wardwell

Allen Wardwell (1873–1953), was a banking law expert [ [http://www.vault.com/dlcenter/excerpt/Top100_Excerpt_2005.pdf Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms • 7th Edition] ] , vice president of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce in 1929, and a name partner of the law firm today known as Davis Polk & Wardwell [ [http://www.smokershistory.com/theorder.htm Allen Wardwell, Scroll & Key 1895] ] .

Allen Wardwell graduated from Yale University in 1895 and was a member of Scroll and Key Society. He served as a Major in the American Red Cross in Russia. He was a member of the Active Campaign Committee of the American Society for the Control of Cancer when it received an unconditional gift of $100,000 from John D. Rockefeller Jr. for its congress at Lake Mohonk in 1926. Wardwell accompanied Averell Harriman in his mission to Moscow in 1941, then headed Russian War Relief Inc. in 1942.

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* [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20615F63D58167B93CAA8178AD85F468485F9 RUSSIAN WAR RELIEF SHIFT; Allen Wardwell Replaces Miss H.L. Moore as Secretary]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803E1D81E3CF930A35750C0A96F958260 Paid Notice: Deaths WARDWELL, ALLEN]


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