Edward R. Stettinius

Edward Reilly Stettinius was an American executive. He was president of Diamond Match Company in Barberton, Ohio for a time. After the start of World War I, he worked at J. P. Morgan and Company coordinating the purchase of war supplies for the Allies. When the United States entered the war, he went to work in its War Department.

Stettinius was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His father was a wholesale grocer.

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