BIOGRAPHY Cordell Hull Secretary of State,  Term of Appointment: 03/04/1933 to 11/30/1944

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• Born in Pickett County, Tennessee, October 2, 1871;
• Attended National Normal University, Lebanon, Ohio, 1889-1890;
• Delegate to the Tennessee Democratic Convention in 1890;
• Graduated from Cumberland University Law School in 1891;
• Admitted to the bar the same year and practiced in Celina, Tennessee;
• Member of the State House of Representatives, 1893-1897;
• Served in Cuba as captain, Fourth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Infantry;
• In 1898 resumed the practice of law;
• Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of Tennessee, 1903-1907;
• Representative from Tennessee 1907-1921 and 1923-1931;
• Married Rose Frances (Witz) Whitney in 1917;
• Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, 1921-1924;
• Senator from Tennessee 1931-1933;
• Commissioned Secretary of State in President Roosevelt's Cabinet March 4, 1933 and served until November 30, 1944;
• As Secretary of State, sponsored a reciprocal-trade program;
• Chairman of American delegations to numerous international conferences,
• United States delegate to the Moscow Conference in 1943;
• Appointed a delegate to the United Nations Conference at San Francisco in 1945;
• Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945
• Retired from public life;
• Died at the Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland, July 23, 1955.