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Herter was born in Paris, France, to American artist and expatriate parents, Albert Herter and Adele McGinnis, and attended the École Alsacienne there ( 1901 – 1904 ) before moving to New York City, where he attended the Browning School ( 1904 – 1911 ).
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What Herter presented, said Gore, was `` not a very encouraging review ''.
This statue was carved by German sculptor Ernst Gustav Herter.
A central Berlin road was ( re -) named " John-Foster-Dulles-Allee " in 1959 in the presence of Christian Herter, Dulles ' successor as Secretary of State.
One of these estates, the Clark Family estate, was later the home to former Massachusetts Governor and United States Secretary of State Christian Herter.
It is recorded that one day a rural letter carrier was stopped by the FBI because President Eisenhower was supposedly visiting Christian Herter and strict security measures were in place.
Christian Archibald Herter ( March 28, 1895December 30, 1966 ) was an American politician and statesman ; 59th governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957, and United States Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961.
They had three sons and one daughter, including Christian A. Herter, Jr., who was active in international relations.
Herter hated working for the scandal-ridden administration of President Warren Harding, and returned to Boston, where he was a magazine editor and lecturer on international affairs.
In 1930 Herter was first elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he served for 12 years.
Although he was critical of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, Herter distinguished himself during 1943 – 1953 primarily for his stand on foreign affairs, especially owing to the so-called Herter Committee in 1947 whose report initiated proposals that led to Harry Truman's Marshall Plan.
On February 21, 1957 Herter was appointed Under Secretary of State for the second term of the Eisenhower administration, and later, when John Foster Dulles became seriously ill, he was appointed Secretary of State, April 22, 1959.
As an unemployed " elder statesman " after the election of 1960, Herter served on various councils and commissions, and was a special representative for trade negotiations, working for both John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson until his death in 1966 in Washington, D. C., at the age of 71.
Secretary Herter was also an active Freemason.
Herter was the last Secretary of State born in the 19th century.
In the autumn of 1911, Kossel was invited to the United States to deliver the Herter Lecture at Johns Hopkins.
His Herter lecture at Johns Hopkins was titled, " The Proteins ".
Albert Herter ( 1871 – 1950 ) was an artist and painter.
He had come from an artistic family ; before Albert was born, his father, Christian Herter, and his father's half-brother Gustave formed Herter Brothers, a prominent New York interior design and furnishings firm.
Herter was the original owner of " The Creeks ", the extravagant estate crowned with a Mediterranean style villa designed by Grosvenor Atterbury and built in 1899 on Georgica Pond, East Hampton.
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* Le Départ des poilus, août 1914 given to the people of France after World War I in which Albert Herter lost a son
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* Ceres Storm, a 2000 science fiction novel by American author David Herter
Christian Archibald Herter, an American physician, wrote a book in 1908 on children with coeliac disease, which he called " intestinal infantilism.
In 1968, the American Foreign Service Association established its Christian A. Herter Award to honor senior diplomats who speak out or otherwise challenge the status quo.
* Herter, Christian Archibald, in American National Biography, 2000, American Council of Learned Societies.
In 1909, Herter was paid US $ 10, 000 by Board of Regents of the Colorado Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to paint for the Denver Auditorium what was said to be the world's largest theater backdrop.
* Christian Herter ( 1895 – 1966 ), American politician
* Christian Archibald Herter ( physician ) ( 1865 – 1910 ), American physician
* Christian A. Herter, Jr. ( Christian Arthur Herter, 1919 – 2007 ), American politician, diplomat, oil executive and academic
Michael Mandelbaum is the Christian A. Herter Professor and Director of the American Foreign Policy program at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies.
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Image by Albert Herter.
Image by Albert Herter.
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Adele and Albert Herter spent a good deal of their time in California at " El Mirasol ", the grand family estate bought in 1904 in Santa Barbara where his mother Mary Miles Herter had entertained friends such as Robert Louis Stevenson's widow Fanny Vandegrift ( who later retired to and died at " El Mirasol " in 1914.
Adele and Albert undertook two major decoration efforts at the estate: the first at the mansion's initial outfitting in 1909 which incorporated earlier Herter Brothers furnishings, new Tiffany lamps designed by Albert Herter, original wall hangings and works of art by both Albert and Adele as well as by other California artists.
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In the main-line train hall, a monumental painting by Albert Herter, dating from 1926, illustrates the departure of these soldiers for the Western front.
** Albert Herter, painter ( d. 1950 )
Inside the theater on either side of the stage are life-size portraits of Shawn in his Hopi Indian Eagle Dance and Ruth St. Denis as Kwannon — the Japanese Goddess of Mercy, painted during the Denishawn era by Albert Herter.
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Adele Herter died at " The Creeks " in 1946 ; the estate was sold to Alfonso A. Ossorio in 1951 by Christian Herter after his father Albert's death in 1950.
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In 1899, the memorial, by the Berlin sculptor Ernst Gustav Herter ( 1846 – 1917 ), finally came to rest, although subject to repeated vandalism, in the Bronx, at 164th Street and the Grand Concourse, or Joyce Kilmer Park near today's Yankee Stadium.
* December 30 – Christian Herter, United States Secretary of State ( b. 1895 )
Herter married the wealthy heiress Mary Caroline Pratt ( 1895 – 1980 ) in 1917.
22 minute video of El Mirasol from 1908 – 1969, including Herter art objects
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