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Grew was born on May 27, 1880, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Edward Sturgis Grew, a wool merchant and banker, and of Annie Crawford Clark. The family was one of wealth and prominence, not of the very top rank in Boston society but moving easily among and related to the Sturgises, Parkmans, and Wigglesworths.
Grew attended the Groton School (1892-1898) and Harvard (1898-1902), from which he received the B. A.
As was usual for young men of his class, Grew took a tour abroad, longer and ranging farther afield than most. In Amoy, China, he shot a tiger, a feat that later convinced Theodore Roosevelt to approve Grew's appointment to the diplomatic service. After his return Grew tried to secure a position in a Boston publishing house, but failed. A year later the public-service consciousness cultivated at Groton and Harvard and his wanderlust pushed him into a diplomatic career. Because of a hearing impairment he was initially rejected for a consular post when he was mistakenly thought to be nearly deaf, but he then received an appointment to Cairo in 1904. In 1906 he was one of the last to receive a transfer from the consular service to the foreign service as the new system of competitive exams was introduced by President Theodore Roosevelt. After a brief return to Egypt, Grew was assigned to Mexico City, where he served as a third secretary in 1906, and to Moscow in 1907. He was promoted to second secretary when he moved to Berlin in 1908, became first secretary at Vienna in 1911-1912, and returned to Berlin in 1912. In 1918, Grew was appointed secretary to the United States Commission to the Versailles Peace Conference. He had charge of arrangements for the Peace Commission, a position that brought him the equivalent of the rank of minister. In this post he was buffeted by the factions contending for control of the American delegation. His ability to solve problems by tact and finesse helped save him. After the peace conference, Grew achieved the promotion that insured his career - he became minister to Denmark in April 1920. Grew proved his mettle as a negotiator at the Lausanne Conference on Near Eastern Affairs (1922-1923), at which he skillfully thwarted British attempts to have things their way, especially concerning oil concessions from Turkey. His role was remembered in 1927 when he became ambassador to Turkey and was warmly welcomed there. In the interim he returned to Washington as undersecretary of state to Frank Kellogg. His major task was to supervise the restructuring of the foreign service authorized in the Rogers Act of 1924. Grew and Kellogg did not get along well, so Grew leaped at the opportunity to become ambassador to Turkey. From that post he moved to Japan in 1932. He was the first career foreign service officer to be made ambassador to a major nation. Tokyo was Grew's last overseas assignment. He hoped to become the peacemaker for Asia, turning Japan away from its course of conquest. This ambition was not realized, in part because events prevented it and because he did not have the right temperament to bring off such a coup. Grew tried desperately during his decade in Japan to explain the Americans to the Japanese and the Japanese to the Americans. He lectured the Japanese Foreign Office on the need for restraint while attempting at the same time to convince Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull to provide Japan with some economic elbow room. After 1937 he confronted an ever-growing animosity in Washington toward Japanese violations of the treaty structure on which America based its Eastern policy. After 1939, Stanley K. Hornbeck, adviser on Far Eastern affairs to Secretary Hull, discounted Grew's advice, judging it a form of appeasement. Grew made a last-ditch effort to avoid war by encouraging President Roosevelt to meet with Prince Fumumaro Konoye, the Japanese prime minister, to talk out the differences separating the two powers. This failed in part because Hull thought the Japanese were stalling; Hornbeck advised him that such a meeting could come to no good end. Grew was convinced that the failure to pursue these talks brought on the attack on Pearl Harbor and that Washington had failed him in his efforts to preserve the peace. After he was repatriated in 1942, Grew became special assistant to Secretary Hull. In 1944 he was made director of the Far Eastern Affairs Division, and from December 1944 to August 1945 he served again as undersecretary of state. In this capacity he expressed his long-standing anti-Bolshevik conviction concerning dealings with the Russians. He also worked to prevent the use of the atomic bomb against Japan, to preserve the position of the emperor, and to prevent unconditional surrender, which he was sure would promote fanatic resistance by the Japanese. After his retirement Grew served on many boards and commissions, some of a semiofficial nature. He died at Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts on May 25, 1965.
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On October 7, 1905, Grew married Alice de Vermandois Perry, a descendant of Commodore Oliver Perry. The couple had four daughters.
