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Charles Aubrey Eaton was born on a farm near Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada on March 29, 1868. He was the son of Stephen Eaton, a shipbuilder and farmer, and Mary Desiah Parker Eaton.
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Charles Aubrey Eaton was born on a farm near Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada on March 29, 1868. He was the son of Stephen Eaton, a shipbuilder and farmer, and Mary Desiah Parker Eaton.
He attended the neighborhood school and worked on the family farm.
From 1884 to 1886 he attended Amherst Academy in Nova Scotia, where he was baptized by David Allan Steele, a prominent Baptist clergyman, and decided to enter the Baptist ministry.
In 1890 Eaton received the B. A. from Acadia University, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
Three years later he graduated with the B. D. from Newton Theological Institution, Newton Center, Massachussets, and was ordained a Baptist minister.
He received the M. A. from McMaster University in Toronto in 1896 and was awarded the D. D. by Baylor University in 1899 and Acadia University in 1907.
In 1893 Eaton was called to serve the First Baptist Church of Natick, Massachussets
Also in 1895 Eaton became a citizen of the United States and was named pastor of the Bloor Street Church in Toronto. There he also became a special correspondent for the London Times, New York Tribune, and Boston Transcript and was the sociological editor of the Toronto Globe and associate editor of the Westminster in Toronto. In 1899 Eaton published his first book, For Troubled Hearts, a collection of inspirational messages.
In 1901 Eaton became pastor of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, of which John D. Rockefeller was a member. He published The Old Evangel and the New Evangelism, which proclaimed that God was calling the nations to a new world neighborhood of trust and cooperation, in the same year. In 1909 Eaton became pastor of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church in New York City. He lived in Plainfield Township (now Watchung), New Jersey, where he established a dairy farm. From November 1917 until January 1919 he was head of the National Service Section of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, charged with inspiring the workers to achieve greater war production. He retired from the ministry in 1919.
During 1919 and 1920 Eaton was an editor of Leslie's Weekly. In 1923 he became editor of Light magazine, published by the General Electric Company, while he was head of the industrial relations department of the National Lamp Works, a subsidiary of General Electric.
He became active in Republican politics during this time, and in 1924 he was elected to the House of Representatives from the Fourth District in New Jersey.
In January 1943 Eaton became the ranking minority member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the acknowledged leader of the internationalist wing of the Republican party in the House. He was a coauthor of the foreign policy statement of the Republican Advisory Council, composed at Mackinac Island (1943), in which the party went on record as favoring postwar international cooperation.
In 1944 Eaton worked for America's participation in the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), which he considered the first real test of America's spirit of international cooperation. In 1945 President Roosevelt appointed Eaton a delegate to the United Nations Charter Conference in San Francisco, where he collaborated closely with fellow Republicans Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Nelson Rockefeller. Signing the charter for the United States was one of the highlights of his career.
In 1947 Eaton became chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. With a Democratic president and a Republican Congress, and with the ascendance of economic aid in foreign policy, the chairmanship was an especially powerful and influential post. Eaton's leadership was at times bitterly challenged by the neoisolationist bloc in the House, but he achieved the passage of every piece of legislation that he sponsored, including continuation of UNRRA, a program of aid to Greece and Turkey (the Truman Doctrine), and the Marshall Plan. The opposition to these programs centered in the House, so that Eaton was their chief defender.
The passage of the Marshall Plan was the high-water mark in Eaton's career. President Harry Truman paid tribute in his memoirs to both Vandenberg and Eaton for their bipartisan support of American foreign policy. After the Democrats regained control of the House in 1948, many Republicans turned against bipartisanism and its proponents, but Eaton stood firm in his internationalism and returned to his position as ranking minority member on the committee. He retired in 1953 after twenty-eight years in the House of Representatives. He died in Watchung, New Jersey.
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As a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Eaton distinguished himself as an opponent of the dominant isolationist bloc of the Republican party led by Representative Hamilton Fish. Throughout his congressional career Eaton continued to express his profound belief that the United States was called by God to help build a world community. On domestic legislation he followed the Republican party's opposition to the New Deal policies of President Franklin Roosevelt, but he did strongly support the President's program of national preparedness.
He met Mary Winifred Parlin, daughter of a wealthy local merchant. They were married on June 26, 1895, and had six children.