Henry L. Stimson

Henry Lewis Stimson was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican Party politician and spokesman on foreign policy. He served as Secretary of War under Republican William Howard Taft, and as GovernorGeneral of the Philippines . As Secretary of State under Republican President Herbert Hoover, he articulated the Stimson Doctrine which announced American opposition to Japanese expansion in Asia. He again served as Secretary of War under Democrats Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, and was a leading hawk calling for war against Germany. During World War II he took charge of raising and trainingmillion soldiers and airmen, supervised the spending of a third of the nations GDP on the Army and the Air Forces, helped formulate military strategy, and oversaw the building and use of the atomic bomb.

Stimson was born in New York City, the son of Lewis Atterbury Stimson, a prominent surgeon, and his wife, the former Candace Thurber Wheeler. When he was nine in 1876 his mother died of kidney failure, after which the boy was sent to boarding school he spent summers with his grandmother Candace Wheeler at her Catskills country house, playing with his almost equally old nephew Dunham Wheeler in a corner nicknamed the Armory. Roaming the Catskills mountains he became an ardent sportsman, growing to love the outdoors.

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