Laurence Steinhardt

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Laurence Steinhardt (1892 - 1950) was a U.S. diplomat. He was the U.S. ambassador to Soviet Union between 1939 and 1941.

The Arlington National Cemetery website lists him as follows:

Served in the Army Quartermaster Corps during World War II [sic; it was WW I]. After the war [sic, his ambassadorships started in 1933], he served as United States Ambassador to six different nations. He died on March 28, 1950 in the crash of a military transport plane while enroute from his post as Ambassador to Canada to New York. He was buried in Section 30 of Arlington National Cemetery.

His wife, Dulcil Hoffman Beau Steinhardt, is buried with him.

  • Name: Laurence A. Steinhardt
  • State of Residency: New York
  • Non-career appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointment: August 12, 1948
  • Presentation of Credentials: November 1, 1948
  • Termination of Mission: Died near Ramsayville, [Ontario] March 28, 1950
  • Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Mar 2, 1949.

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The website Political Graveyard lists the essentials:

Laurence Adolph Steinhardt (1892-1950) — also known as Laurence A. Steinhardt — of New York. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., October 6, 1892. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. Minister to Sweden, 1933-37; U.S. Ambassador to Peru, 1937-39; Soviet Union, 1939-41; Turkey, 1942-45; Czechoslovakia, 1945-48; Canada, 1948-50, died in office 1950. Jewish. Member, American Bar Association. Died in a plane crash near Ramsayville, Ontario, March 28, 1950. Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.

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His diplomatic service coincided with the Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman administrations and, by published accounts, he initially earned the positions with hefty campaign contributions.

In his day, he was a major figure, a capable and strategic diplomat who participated in the highest levels of statecraft.

Particularly because he was Jewish, he was involved in a tale of very limited rescues of Hungarian Jews from Bergen Belsen, told at www.kasztnermemorial.com.


Preceded by:
John Motley Morehead III		 U.S. Ambassador to Sweden
1933 -1937		 Succeeded by:
Fred Morris Dearing
Preceded by:
Joseph E. Davies		 U.S. Ambassador to Russia
1939 -1941		 Succeeded by:
William H. Standley
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