Louis Edwin Van Norman

Background

Norman, Louis Edwin Van was born on August 3, 1869 in Quebec, Canada. Son of Edwin M. and Elizabeth Eleanor (Healey) Van Norman.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, College of City of New York, 1891, Master of Arts, 1896, New York University.

Career

Journalist, 1890-1891. Magazine editor and review writer Tokok extended tour of Europe and Asia, 1900, and wrote for magazines, chiefly on international politics and economics.

Authority on Slavonic subjects (Russia and Poland).

Editor of civic improvement publications, Springfield, O., 1902. Went to Europe to study Russia and Scandinavia for American magazines

Associate editor Chautauquan, 1902. Foreign editor Literary Digest, 1900.

Assistant editor Review of Reviews, in charge foreign department, 1904-1914.

Editor The Nation’s Business, monthly magazine of Chamber of Commerce, United States of America, 1915-1916. Editor Capital Publishers, Incorporated., and advisory editor Sea Power, for Navy League, Art and Archeology for the Archeological Institute America, and others, 1916-1917. Organized division of information for War Trade Board and took charge of its publicity, September 1917.

Appointed trade commissioner to Rumania (headquarters Bucharest), by Bureau Foreign and Domestic Commerce, January 1919.

Appointed resident trade commissioner to the minister at Warsaw, Poland, September 1919. Transferred to Bucharest November 1921.

Appointed commercial attache to Legation at Bucharest, March 1925, transferred for duty in Washington, District of Columbia, 1925. As special representative Bureau Foreign and Domestic Commerce.

With United States Daily, Washington, District of Columbia, 1930-1933, 1934-1936.

Representative Department of Commerce of information committee for negotiation of reciprocal trade agreements. Honorary member Polish Patriotic International Society. Member Phi Delta Theta, Phi Beta Kappa.

Achievements

• Louis Edwin Van Norman has been listed as a notable author, economist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Polish Patriotic International Society. Member Phi Delta Theta, Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Married Daniela Kotnowska, October 4, 1903.

Father:

Edwin M. Norman

Mother:

Elizabeth Eleanor (Healey) Van Norman

Spouse:

Daniela Kotnowska