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Joseph Grew

1880 - 1965

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Joseph Clark Grew (May 27, 1880 – May 25, 1965) was an American career diplomat and Foreign Service officer. He is best known as the ambassador to Japan from 1932 to 1941 and as a high official in the State Department in Washington from 1944 to 1945. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Grew has received more than 205,018 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Grew is the 56th most popular diplomat, the 4,618th most popular biography from United States and the 13th most popular American Diplomat.

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  • 16

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  • 2.11

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Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Joseph Grew ranks 56 out of 52Before him are Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein, Victoria Nuland, Ángel Sanz Briz, Jules Cambon, William J. Burns, and Selahattin Ülkümen. After him are Ernest Mason Satow, Edward M. House, Adlai Stevenson II, Vatslav Vorovsky, Christiana Figueres, and Seán Lester.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Joseph Grew ranks 121Before him are Jeannette Rankin, Frigyes Riesz, Tom Mix, Richard Oswald, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, and Azim Azimzade. After him are Samuel Jones, Radclyffe Hall, Nikolai Podvoisky, Thomas H. Ince, Harry Baur, and Arthur Dove. Among people deceased in 1965, Joseph Grew ranks 107Before him are Clemente Micara, Boris Barnet, Nikolay Lossky, Laureano Gómez, Daniel-Rops, and Johnny Hayes. After him are John Kitzmiller, Roger Vailland, Johannes Bobrowski, Edward R. Murrow, Harry Crerar, and Henry Cowell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Grew ranks 4,618 out of 18,182Before him are Elizabeth Perkins (1960), Richard Kiley (1922), Gary Hart (1936), Richard Sears (1861), Herman Wouk (1915), and Melinda Culea (1955). After him are Natalie Zemon Davis (1928), Alice Neel (1900), Perry King (1948), Gregory Hines (1946), Robert Keohane (1941), and Gary Peacock (1935).

Among DIPLOMATS In United States

Among diplomats born in United States, Joseph Grew ranks 13Before him are Jean Kennedy Smith (1928), Ralph Bunche (1904), Richard Holbrooke (1941), J. Christopher Stevens (1960), Victoria Nuland (1961), and William J. Burns (1956). After him are Edward M. House (1858), Adlai Stevenson II (1900), and Richard Armitage (1945).