Samuel Flagg Bemis Born: 20-Oct-1891 Birthplace: Worcester, MA Died: 26-Sep-1973 Location of death: Bridgeport, CT Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male Religion: Unitarian Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Historian Nationality: United States Executive summary: Scholar of diplomacy Father: Charles Harris Bemis (b. 1-Sep-1864, d. 15-Jun-1951) Mother: Flora Minerva Wife: Ruth M. Steele (m. 20-Jun-1919, one daughter) Daughter: Barbara
University: BA, Clark University (1912) University: AM, Clark University (1913) University: AM, Harvard University (1915) University: PhD, Harvard University (1916) Professor: Colorado College (1917-21) Professor: History, Whitman College (1921-23) Professor: George Washington University (1924-34) Professor: Diplomatic History, Yale University (1935-60)
Pulitzer Prize for History 1927 for Pinckney's Treaty Pulitzer Prize for Biography 1950 for John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy Carnegie Institution for Science Research Assoc., Div. of Historical Research (1923-24) American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1958 American Antiquarian Society
American Historical Association President (1961) Massachusetts Historical Society
Author of books:
Jay's Treaty: A Study in Commerce and Diplomacy (1923, international affairs) Pinckney's Treaty: A Study of America's Advantage from Europe's Distress, 1783-1800 (1926, international affairs) The Hussey-Cumberland Mission and American Independence: An Essay in the Diplomacy of the American Revolution (1931, international affairs) Guide To The Diplomatic History of the United States, 1775-1921 (1935, international affairs) A Diplomatic History of the United States (1936, international affairs) Early Diplomatic Missions from Buenos Aires to the United States, 1811-1824 (1940, international affairs) The Latin American Policy of the United States (1943, international affairs) John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy (1949, international affairs) John Quincy Adams and the Union (1956, history) The Diplomacy of the American Revolution (1957, international affairs)
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