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Alfred Lewis Pinneo Dennis was born on May 21, 1874, in Beirut, Lebanon. He was the only son and the second child of Dr. James Shepard Dennis and Mary Elizabeth (Pinneo) Dennis, both of whom belonged to old New Jersey families of English stock. Frederic Shepard Dennis was his uncle.
Dennis early developed a keen interest in history and diplomacy from his life in Beirut, a center of international contacts, where his father was for many years the president of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of that city. He was graduated from Princeton in 1896, and, after continuing his historical studies at Columbia, Heidelberg, and Harvard, received the degree of Ph. D. from Columbia in 1901.
Alfred Dennis had a rapid rise professionally: instructor and professor of history and political science at Bowdoin College, 1901-1904; associate professor of history at the University of Chicago, 1904-1905; lecturer in history at Harvard, 1905-1906; and professor of history, and for a time chairman of the department, at the University of Wisconsin, 1906-1920. After resigning his professorship at Wisconsin to devote himself entirely to historical research, he later resumed his university work in 1923 when he accepted the professorship of modern history at Clark University, a position which he held until his death, and where he usually gave alternate semesters to lecturing and to historical investigation and writing.
After the outbreak of the First World War, Dennis devoted most of his time to various forms of war work. He was successively temporary secretary of the Wisconsin state council of defense, 1917; captain in the military intelligence division of the General Staff of the United States army, 1918-1919; and assistant military attache, American embassy, London, reporting to the Peace Conference at Paris, 1919. Before the United States entered the war he was influential in obtaining the passage by Congress of the important acts establishing national and state councils of defense.
His chief publications, in addition to many magazine articles, were: Eastern Problems at the Close of the Eighteenth Century (1901), which was his doctoral dissertation; The Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1923), which was written originally for the use of the members of the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armament, 1921-1922; The Foreign Policies of Soviet Russia (1924); "John Hay, " a biography in The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy, edited by Samuel F. Bemis (1929).
For some time before his death Dennis had been working on what he hoped would be his magnum opus: a study of British history from 1880 to the nineteen twenties. It was to appear in two volumes; the first had been largely completed at the time of his death, and much material had been collected for the second. It was while he was in London, in October 1930, that overwork on his forthcoming British history led to the illness which, after his return to Worcester the following month, resulted in his death.
Dennis was regarded as among the leading American historians in the field of modern history and international relations. His most important work was Adventures in American Diplomacy, 1896-1906 (1928), since it contained considerable new material based on previously unused sources. He was awarded the British Military Cross.
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Dennis married Mary Boardman Cable, the daughter of George W. Cable, on June 7, 1899. They had two daughters: Mary Elizabeth and Louise Cable.
