Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1950-11-03


Jessup is a native New Yorker, a
graduate of Hamilton college, Yale
and Columbia universities. He
served as lecturer on international
law both at Columbia and Hamilton
and as assistant to Elihu Root at
the conference of jurists on the
permanent court of international
justice at Geneva in 1929. He has
served his country in scores of in
ternational meetings and confer
ences and was named ambassador
at large in March, 1949, for spe-
cial assignments throughout the
world in negotiations with other
governments. He is of Irish-English
ancestry and his great-grandfather,
Judge William Jessup, was a dele
gate to the Republican convention
in 1860 and chairman of the COM
mittee which drafted the platform
upon which Lincoln was elected.
JOHN E. PEURIFOY, deputy as
slstant secretary of state and in
charge of personnel and admins
tration of the entire department,
has been in the department since
1888 serving in various capacities.
He is a native of WATERFORD, South
Carolina, and attended the u. S.
Military Academy at West Point,
American and George Washington
universities. Prior to his entry into
the department he was engaged in
the insurance business for the Kan
sas City Joint Stock Land Bank
and the American Surety company
of New York.
Wizard L. Thorp, native of
Oswego, New York, was educated
at Amherst, the University of Mich
lgan and Columbia. He is assist
ant secretary in charge of eco
nomic affairs. He is an economic
expert, a former director of the
bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce in the department of
commerce and former partner of
Dunn g. Bradstreet.
Edward W. Barrett as assistant
secretary in charge of public af-
fairs acts as sort of general man.
ager and directs the office of inter-
national information and educa-
tional exchange. He was born in
Birmingham, Alabama, is a for
mer newspaper reporter and radio
man and was editorial director of
Newsweek.
Jack K. McFall was a navy COM
mander during World War II. He is
assistant secretary and has charge
OF congressional relations. He spent
fifteen years as clerk of the house
appropriations committee. Born in
Tacoma, Washington, he lived in
Colorado and Indiana and is a
graduate of Georgetown and Ma
tional universities.
George W. Perkins, assistant Sec
rotary in charge of the bureau of
European affairs, is a native of
New York, an army colonel, a
graduate of Princeton, and was
executive secretary to former
postmaster Gen. Will H. Hays. He
is a trustee of Princeton Univer-
sity and wears the Legion of Merit
badge.
John Hickerson of Texas is an
assistant secretary in charge of
the bureau of United Nations af-
fairs. His is foreign service Off
Ger Of rs years experience, a grad
uate of the University of Texas and
a lecturer since 1928 on diplomacy
and consular practice at the
Georgetown University school of
foreign service.
George McGhee, also of Texas,
is director of the bureau of near
eastern, south Asian and African
affairs. He is a geologist, formerly
with a Dallas firm. He is former
naval air combat intelligence Off
Ger, saw service at Two Jima and
Guam with the 21st bomber COM
mand, and has the legion of merit
and three battle stars.
These are some of the top men
in the state department, their back
ground and the field of their serv-
ice.