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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeCordell HULL
(1871-1955)
Senate Years of Service:
1931-1933Party: DemocratHULL, Cordell, a
Representative and a Senator from Tennessee; born in Olympus,
Overton (now Pickett) County, Tenn., October 2, 1871; attended
normal school and graduated from the law department of Cumberland
University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1891; admitted to the bar the same
year and commenced practice in Celina, Tenn.; member, State house
of representatives 1893-1897; during the Spanish-American War
served with the rank of captain; judge of the fifth judicial
circuit of Tennessee 1903-1906; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixtieth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1907-March
3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the
Sixty-seventh Congress; chairman of the Democratic National
Executive Committee 1921-1924; again elected to the Sixty-eighth
and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3,
1931); was not a candidate for renomination in 1930, having become
a candidate for Senator; elected to the United States Senate as a
Democrat in 1930 and served from March 4, 1931, to March 3, 1933,
when he resigned to become Secretary of State; appointed Secretary
of State in the Cabinet of President Franklin D. Roosevelt March 4,
1933, serving until his resignation December 1, 1944; known as
‘the Father of the United Nations’; awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1945; retired and resided in Washington, D.C., until
his death there, July 23, 1955; interment in the Central Burial
Vault of the Chapel of St. Joseph of Arimathea in the Washington
Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Hull, Cordell. Memoirs of Cordell Hull. New
York: McMillan Company, 1948; Pratt, Julian. Cordell Hull,
1933-1944. 2 vols., New York: Cooper Square Publishers,
1964.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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