Background
Berle, Adolf Augustus was born on January 29, 1895 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Adolf Augustus and Augusta (Wright) Berle.
Berle, Adolf Augustus was born on January 29, 1895 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Adolf Augustus and Augusta (Wright) Berle.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1913, Master of Arts, 1914, Bachelor of Laws, 1916. Doctor of Laws, Oberlin, Wesleyan, Columbia, Detroit Yankton. Honorary Doctorate., University of Brazil, University of the Andes, University Aix-Marseilles.
Practiced law, Boston, 1916-1917, New York City, from 1919. Partner Berle & Berle. Professor of corporation law Columbia Law School, 1927-1964, professor law emeritus, 1964.
Lecturer at Air War College, from 1951.
Member board directors SuCrest, New York City, Twentieth Century Fund, New York City, Ecole de L’Europe Libre, France. Special counsel Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1933-1938.
Chamberlain of New York City, 1934-1938. Assistant secretary of state, 1938-1944.
United States ambassador to Brazil, 1945-1946.
Chairman task force on Latin America, 1961. Also consultant to Secretary of State, 1961-1962. Delaware United States Government to Inter-American Conference, for Maintenance of Peace, Buenos Aires, 1936-1937.
8th Pam American Conference, Lima, Peru, 1938, Pam American Conference, Habana, 1940.
President International Conference Civil Aviation, Chicago, 1944, and chairman United States delegation.
Served from private to First lieutenant infantry O.R.C., 1917-1919. Member Phi Beta Kappa. Clubs: Army and Navy (Washington).
Married to Beatrice Bend Bishop, December 17, 1927. Children: Alice Bishop (Mistress Clan Crawford), Beatrice (Mistress Dean Winston Meyerson), Peter Adolf.