jun 9, 1883 - FOSDICK, RAYMOND B.
(1883–1972)
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FOSDICK, RAYMOND B. (1883–1972). A student of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University, Raymond Fosdick was secretary and auditor to the National Democratic Committee in 1912 although he was a Republican. Fosdick had a number of public service posts in New York until appointed special representative of the War Department in France in 1917, during World War I. He was responsible for administering the prohibition of alcohol in the army, and he headed the Commission on Training Camp Activities of the Council of National Defense, which sought to uplift troop morality. He was an aide to General John J. Pershing at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference
and undersecretary of the League of Nations (1919–20), relinquishing the post when the Senate failed to ratify the Treaty of Versailles. He returned to public service in 1933 on the Liquor Study Committee. From 1936 to 1948, he was president of the Rockefeller Foundation.
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