Buell, Raymond Leslie, 1896-1946

Epithet: President Foreign Policy Association USA

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x0000bd

Educator, lecturer, and publicist; active in international affairs.

From the description of Raymond Leslie Buell papers, 1915-1981 (bulk 1920-1946). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014557

Biographical Note

• 1896, July 13: Born, Chicago, Ill.
• 1918: A.B., Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif.
• 1918 - 1919 : Sergeant of ordnance, American Expeditionary Forces
• 1919: Student, University of Grenoble, Isere, France; wrote Contemporary French Politics
• 1920: M.A., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
• 1920 - 1921 : Assistant professor of history and economics, Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif.
• 1922: Ph.D., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
• 1922 - 1925 : Instructor in government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1925 - 1926 : Investigated political conditions in Africa, Bureau of International Research, Harvard University and Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1926 - 1927 : Assistant professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1927 - 1939 : Research director, 1927-1933, and president, 1933-1939, Foreign Policy Association
• 1928: Married Frances March Dwight Representative of Foreign Policy Association, Pan American Conference, Havana, Cuba Published The Native Problem in Africa (New York: Macmillan Co. 2 vols.)
• 1934: Chairman, Commission on Cuban Affairs
• 1934 - 1935 : Cofounder and research advisor, National Policy Committee
• 1935 - 1936 : Director, Geneva Research Center, Geneva, Switzerland
• 1938 - 1942 : Advisor and roundtable editor for Time, Inc.
• 1939: Published Poland: Key to Europe (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 364 pp.)
• 1940: Published Isolated America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 457 pp.) Foreign affairs adviser to Wendell L. Willkie's presidential campaign
• 1942: Unsuccessful candidate for Congress, first district of Massachusetts
• 1942 - 1946 : Foreign affairs advisor to the editors of Time, Life, and Fortune magazines
• 1946: Died, Montreal, Canada

From the guide to the Raymond Leslie Buell Papers, 1915-1984, (bulk 1920-1946), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)