Background
Steinhardt, Laurence A. was born on October 6, 1892 in New York City. Son of Adolph M. and Addie (Untermyer) Steinhardt.
Steinhardt, Laurence A. was born on October 6, 1892 in New York City. Son of Adolph M. and Addie (Untermyer) Steinhardt.
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia, 1913, Master of Arts, 1915, Bachelor of Laws, 1915.
He served as the United States. Minister to Sweden and United States. Ambassador to Peru, the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Turkey, Czechoslovakia, and Canada. He was the first United States Ambassador to be killed in office. He served as a Sergeant in the Quartermaster Corps in the United States. Army in World War I.
In 1932, he worked on the presidential campaign of Franklin Roosevelt.
Steinhardt was appointed United States. Minister to Sweden in 1933 by Franklin Doctorate. Roosevelt.
He was appointed ambassador to Peru in 1937, the Soviet Union in 1939. On 23 February 1940, writing a letter from Moscow to Loy Henderson at the United States Department of State, Steinhardt reported that after having visited Riga, Tallinn and Leningrad with John Copper Wiley that he "could find no evidence in Riga or Tallinn -- and John agrees with me -- that there is any move presently on foot by the Soviets to "take over"." Of course the take over did take place several months later in June 1940.
In 1941, he evacuated Moscow embassy to Kuybyshev. On January 12, 1942, he was appointed ambassador to Turkey.
While ambassador to Turkey, Steinhardt, particularly because he was Jewish, was involved in the rescue of Hungarian Jews from Bergen Belsen.
He also played a significant role in helping many eminent intellectuals fleeing Europe to find refuge in Turkey. In 1945, President Truman appointed Steinhardt ambassador to Czechoslovakia, and to Canada in 1948. While serving as the Ambassador to Canada, he was killed in a plane crash on March 28, 1950 near Ramsayville, Ontario, while en route to Washington, Doctorate. C.
He is buried in section 30, Arlington National Cemetery.
Member Guggenheimer, Untermyer & Marshall, 1920-1933. Member executive finance committee Democratic National Committee. Member President Roosevelt’s preconvention campaign committee, 1933.
Awarded United States Medal of Merit, 1947.
Member American Bar assosiation, New York County Lawyers Association, Bar Association City of New York (council on foreign relations, 1947), Pi Lambda Phi (national president), permanent treasurer class of 1913 Columbia University and 1915 Columbia University Law School. Clubs: National Democrat, Bankers, Columbia University (New York).
Married Dulcie Yates Hofmann.