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Ambassador James J. Wadsworth, Deputy U.S. Representative to the United Nations and Deputy U. S. Representative in the Security Council, is a veteran of 16 years in government service. Prior to his present appointment, he served as Acting Administrator of the Federal Civil Defense Administration and from its inception in 1950 until November 1952 he was Deputy Administrator of the program. During the summer of 1950 he was Director of the Civil Defense Office of the National Security Resources Board, during which time he was sent to England to study British civil defense problems. |
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Ambassador Wadsworth also was the United States senior representative on the United States-Canadian |
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Joint Civil Defense Mission which was established in 1950. He was invited to meetings of the National Security Council in his capacity as Acting FODA Administrator and was in constant communication with civil defense representatives from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries. |
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For 2 years prior to his security agency service in Civil Defense, he was special Assistant to Paul G. Hoffman, EGA Administrator, acting principally as the Administration’s liaison with Congress. He also was sent to Europe several times to confer with American members of ECA missions as well as with European leaders on problems relevant to the Marshall Plan. |
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During the years 1927-1941, Ambassador Wadsworth was active in farm management. For ten years, beginning in 1931, he was a member of the New York State Legislature. He served as Chairman of the Public Welfare Committee, sponsored the codification of the New York State Welfare Law, now in effect, and was concerned chiefly with employment and labor relations problems. |
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From 1941-45, Ambassador Wadsworth was Assistant Industrial Relations Manager of the Aircraft Division of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation at Buffalo, New York. In 1945, he became Director of the Public Interest Division of War Assets Administration and from 1946-48 he was Director of the Governmental Affairs Department of the Air Transport Association of America. |
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The Deputy U. S. Representative was born in 1905 in Groveland, New York. His father was James W. Wadsworth, the distinguished United States Representative and former United States Senator from New York who died recently. His grandfather, John Hav, had a long career in the diplomatic service from 1865 to 1905. This included the offices of Assistant Secretary of State from 1879-1881; Ambassador to Great Britain 1897-1898; and Secretary of State from 1898 to 1905. Ambassador Wadsworth received his A.B. degree from Yale University in 1927 and his LL.D. from Alfred (New York) University in 1937. His wife is the former Harty Tiltoa of New York. The Wadsworth's home is in Washington, D.C. They have one daughter, Mrs. Trowbridge Strong of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, and two grandchildren. Ambassador Wadsworth is the brother-in-law of United States Senator Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) |
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