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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ConnecticutLUCE, Clare Boothe
(1903—1987)
LUCE, Clare Boothe, (stepdaughter of Albert E. Austin), a Representative from Connecticut; born in New York City April 10, 1903; was graduated from St. Mary’s School at Garden City, Long Island, N.Y., and from Miss Mason’s School at Tarrytown, N.Y., in 1919, writer, associate editor, and managing editor of Vanity Fair, 1929-1934; administrative representative of the public to the National Recovery Administration Code Authority for the legitimate theater and motion pictures in 1934; author, playwright, journalist, foreign correspondent, and lecturer; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1947); was not a candidate for renomination in 1946; engaged in writing; United States Ambassador to Italy from March 2, 1953, to January 4, 1957; confirmed as United States Ambassador to Brazil April 28, 1959, but resigned three days later on May 1, 1959; member, President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, 1973-1977 and 1982-1987; was a resident of Washington, D.C., until her death there on October 9, 1987; interment at Mepkin Abbey, Moncks Corner, S.C.
Bibliography
Shadegg, Stephen C. Clare Boothe Luce; A Biography
. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970; Sheed, Wilfred. Clare Boothe Luce
. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1982.
“Clare Boothe Luce” in Women in Congress, 1917-1990.
Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991.
Hatch, Alden. Ambassador Extraordinary: Clare Boothe Luce.
New York: Holt, 1956.
Luce, Clare Boothe. American Diplomacy at Work: An Address, by The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce, Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, March 23, 1955
. [Cleveland?: Council on World Affairs?, 1955?]
———. American Morality and Nuclear Diplomacy: An Address, by Clare Boothe Luce
. [Chambersburg, Pa.: Wilson College, 1961].
———. Is Communism Compatible with Christianity
? New York: Catholic Information Society, [199-?]
———. Europe in the Spring.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940.
———. Kiss the Boys Good-bye; A Comedy.
New York: Random House, 1939.
———. Little Rock and the Muscovite Moon: Challenges to America’s Leadership: An Address
. Stamford, Conn.: Overbrook Press, 1957.
———. The Long Snorkel
. [New York]: C.B. Luce, [1957?]
———. Margin for Error; A Satirical Melodrama.
New York: Random House, 1940.
———. The Mystery of American Policy in China. An Address at testimonial dinner honoring the Most Reverend Paul YuPin, D.D., Archbishop of Nanking, New York, New York, June 14, 1949.
New York: Plain Talk, 1949.
———. Saints for Now
. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1952.
———. Saving the White Man’s Soul
. Huntington, Ind.: Our Sunday Visitor Press, [1949?]
———. Slam the Door Softly; A Play in One Act.
New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1971.
———. Stuffed Shirts.
New York: H. Liveright, Inc., 1931. Reprint, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1971.
———. The Twilight of God.
Chicago: H. Regnery Company, 1949.
———. The Women
. New York: Random House, [1937].
———. The Women: Play in Three Acts.
New York: Random House, 1937. Reprint, New York: Dramatists Play Service, [196-].
———. The Women, Play in Two Acts
. [New York]: Dramatists Play Service, [1966].
———, ed. Saints For Now.
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1952.
Lyons, Joseph. Clare Boothe Luce
. New York: Chelsea House, 1989.
Martin, Ralph G. Henry and Clare: An Intimate Portrait of the Luces.
New York: Putnam’s Sons, 1991.
McKee, Mary J. “Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce: Her Rhetoric Against Communism.” Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1962.
Morris, Sylvia Jukes. Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Booth Luce.
New York: Random House, Inc., 1997.
Shadegg, Stephen C. Clare Boothe Luce; A Biography.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970.
Sheed, Wilfred. Clare Boothe Luce.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1982.
Willis, Ronald Gary. “The Persuasion of Clare Boothe Luce.” Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1993.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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