McDonald, James Grover
Birth Name | McDonald, James Grover [1] |
Call Name | James |
Gender | male |
Age at Death | 78 years |
Events
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Birth | 1886 | Coldwater, Ohio, United States of America |
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Education | Harvard University, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States of America |
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Occupation | 1033 | League of Nations, Genève, canton de Genève, Suisse | James G. McDonald served as the High Commissioner for Refugees |
Event Note
In 1933, James G. McDonald was assigned by the League of Nations to run the Commission for Refugees coming from Germany.
James Grover McDonald was so convinced that the Jews were marked for destruction in Germany that he appealed to the international community to help settle them outside the Reich but had very little success. In 1938, James G. McDonald was named Chairman of Roosevelt’s Presidential Advisory Committee on Political Refugees.
In November, 1938, n a private conversation, President Franklin Roosevelt told refugee advocate, James G. McDonald, the United States might contribute to an international fund to resettle the Jews. |
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Occupation | June, 1948 | James G. McDonald was appointed First United States Ambassador to Israel |
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Death | 1964 |
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Web Links
Type | Link/ Description | |
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1 | Web Home | James Grover McDonald, from Wikipedia |
2 | Web Home | ג'יימס מקדונלד, from ויקיפדיה |
Source References
Pedigree
- McDonald, James Grover