Background
Griswold, Alfred Whitney was born on October 27, 1906 in Morristown, New Jersey, United States. Son of Harold Ely and Elsie M. (Whitney) Griswold.
Griswold, Alfred Whitney was born on October 27, 1906 in Morristown, New Jersey, United States. Son of Harold Ely and Elsie M. (Whitney) Griswold.
Graduate Hotchkiss School, 1925. Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1929, Doctor of Philosophy, 1933. Doctor of Humane Letters, Trinity College, 1950.
Doctor of Laws, Princeton University, 1950, Harvard University, 1950.
Doctor of Letters, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1951. Doctor of Laws, Columbia, 1954, Brown University, 1954, University of Pennsylvania, 1956, Wesleyan University, 1956, Johns Hopkins, 1959, U. Bridgeport, 1961, Williams College, 1961.
Instructor in history Yale, 1933-1936, research assistant in international relations, 1935-1938, assistant professor government and international relations, 1938-1942, associate professor, political science, 1945-1946, associate professor of history, 1946-1947, professor history, 1947-1950. Director United States foreign area studies, 1942-1945, United States Civil Affairs Training School, 1943-1945. President Yale University, since 1950.
Married Mary M. Brooks, June 10, 1930. Children: Sarah Brooks, (Mistress Richard G. Leahy), Mary (Mistress James B. Baker), Susanna Whitney, Alfred Whitney.