Jay Pierrepont Moffat
Jay Pierrepont Moffat was born in Rye, New York, United States on January 7th, 1896 and is the American Diplomat. At the age of 47, Jay Pierrepont Moffat biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Moffat, a professional diplomat, served as the private secretary to the U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands from 1917 until 1919. Following his service in the Netherlands, he was the secretary of the American legation in Warsaw from 1919 until 1921, and in Tokyo from 1921 to 1923.
Between 1925 and 1927, he served President Calvin Coolidge as Ceremony Officer at the White House and in 1927, at the end of his assignment, he was married to Lilla Cabot Grew, the daughter of fellow diplomat Joseph C. Grew. Moffat continued his diplomatic career in the post of secretary to the American legation in Berne, Switzerland, from 1927 to 1931, and as the U.S. Consul General to Australia from 1935 to 1937.
From 1937 to 1940, he again served in Washington, this time in the significant post of Chief of the State Department's Western European Division. Finally, in June 1940, after U.S. Ambassador to Canada James H. R. Cromwell resigned after 142 days to run for the U.S. Senate, President Franklin Roosevelt nominated Moffat to his first and, as it turned out, final post in an ambassadorial role as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Canada. He was immediately confirmed and served until his death, two years and seven months later, in the midst of World War II.
Following his death, he was succeeded by Ray Atherton. In his obituary, The New York Times remarked that "even in war, when death is knocking at such a multitude of doors, the loss of a trusted public man in the flower of his age and his powers is lamentable". In addition to his work as a diplomat, he wrote a work on Turkish history and, in 1956, his papers were donated to the Harvard University Library by his father-in-law Ambassador Joseph Grew.