David M. Pletcher AKA David Mitchell Pletcher Born: 14-Jun-1920 Birthplace: Faribault, MN Died: 22-Feb-2004 Location of death: Bloomington, IN Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Maple Lawn Cemetery, Faribault, MN
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Occupation: Historian Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Diplomacy of Involvement Father: Nuba Mitchell Pletcher (b. 10-Sep-1880, d. 7-Dec-1965) Mother: Emma Jean Hutchinson (b. 13-May-1888, d. 9-Oct-1950) Brother: Charles Hutchinson Pletcher (b. 5-Sep-1922, d. 14-Dec-1992)
University: AB, University of Chicago (1941) University: AM, University of Chicago (1941) University: PhD, University of Chicago (1946) Professor: Knox College (1946-56) Professor: Hamline University (1956-65) Professor: History, Indiana University Bloomington (1965-90)
American Historical Association Organization of American Historians Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations President (1980)
Beveridge Award 1957 for Rails, Mines and Progress
Author of books:
Rails, Mines and Progress: Seven American Promoters in Mexico, 1867-1911 (1958, history) The Awkward Years: American Foreign Relations Under Garfield and Arthur (1962, international affairs) The Diplomacy of Annexation: Texas, Oregon, and the Mexican War (1973, international affairs) The Diplomacy of Trade and Investment: American Economic Expansion in the Hemisphere, 1865-1900 (1998, international affairs) The Diplomacy of Involvement: American Economic Expansion Across the Pacific, 1784-1900 (2001, international affairs)
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