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At the end of the 79th Congress, the senior United States Senator from Vermont, Warren Robinson Austin, tendered his resignation as Senator and, on January 13, 1947, became Representative of the United States at the seat of the United Nations in New York with the rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Ambassador Plenipotentiary. In that post he undertook his most important diplomatic assignment. |
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As his country's Ambassador to the United Nations, Warren
Austin also serves as United States Representative in the Security Council, the Disarmament Commission, Interim Committee of the General Assembly, the Collective Measures Committee, the Committee on Additional Measures, and the |
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Conciliation Commission for Palestine. He has been |
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appointed United States Representative to each session of the General Assembly since the second part of the First Session in 1946, and designated as the Senior Representative on the United States Delegation. |
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The Ambassador's experience in the affairs of foreign countries began when he was a youthful attorney in Vermont. In 1916 he became
legal representative in China for the American International Corporation. His job was to represent American interests contracting for the financing and building of national railways in China, the development of the Grand Canal in Shantung Province, and conservation projects designed to prevent flood and famine. He remained in China for a year. |
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Elected to the Senate in 1931, he attended the Philippine Commonwealth Inauguration in 1935. In 1936 he went to Palestine to study conditions under the League of Nations Mandate. The following year he went to Puerto Rico to examine its judicial system |
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Before and during World War II, Senator Austin voiced strong internationalist views. Throughout the war he was a member of the Military Affairs Committee and at the time of his resignation from the Senate was its ranking Republican member. He was also a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and of the Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs. He took part in planning for postwar economic developments as a member of the Special Senate Committee on Postwar Economic Policy and Planning, and after the war he was made a member of the Special Committee on Atomic Energy. |
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At the 1944 Republican National Convention, Ambassador Austin was chairman of the Subcommittee on The War and The Peace. From February 21 to March 8, 1945 he was an adviser in the United States Delegation to the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and at Mexico City. He received the First Annual Award (1947) of the American Association for the United Nations to the American who had made the most outstanding contribution to the United Nations during the past year. |
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Ambassador Austin was born November 12, 1877 in Higate, Vermont, the son of Chauncey Goodrich and Ann Mathilda (Robinson) Austin. His early education was at Brigham Academy, Bakersfield, Vt., where he was graduated in 1895 Four years later he was graduated from the University of Vermont, Ph.B. He studied law in his father's firm in St. Albans, Vermont and was admitted to the Vermont bar in 1902. |
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He served as States Attorney for Franklin County from 1904 to 1906 and then practiced law in St. Albans until 1916. After his work in China he set up his own law firm in Burlington, Vermont in 1917. During World War I he lectured at the University of Vermont on military law and from 1925 to 1928 on medical jurisprudence He was President of the Vermont Bar Association in 1923 and was a Trustee of the University of Vermont from 1914 to 1941. He was admitted to practice before the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1906, the Supreme Court of the United States in 1914, and the United States Court for China in 1917. He also is a member of the American Bar Association, the Far Eastern Bar Association, and the American Judicature Society. |
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His political career began with his service as State's Attorney. He was U.S. Commissioner from 1907 to 1915, Chairman of the Republican State Convention in 1908, Mayor of St. Albans in 1909, Delegate of the Congress of the Mint in 1912, and Delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1928, 1940 and 1944. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1931 at a special election to fill the unexpired term of Senator Frank Lester Greene, and was reelected in 1934 and 1940. |
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He was married at St. Albans, Vermont, on June 26, 1901, to Mildred Mary Lucas of St. Albans. They have two sons, Warren Robinson Austin Jr., of Burlington, and Lt. Col. Edward Lucas Austin, veteran of World War II, who was attached to the Joint Brazil-United States Military Commission at Rio de Janeiro, and is now at Governors Island in G-2 Section, Headquarters of the First U, S. Army. There are six grandchildren. |
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