About Christian Herter
Christian Archibald Herter was an American diplomat and Republican politician who was the 59th governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957 and United States Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961. He served as president of the board of trustees at the Dexter School from 1937 to 1939. His moderate tone of negotiations was confronted by the intensity of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in a series of unpleasant episodes that turned the Cold War even colder in 1960–61. In 1930, Herter was first elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives and served for 12 years. In 1947, Herter founded the Middle East Institute with Middle East scholar George Camp Keiser and then served on the board of trustees of the World Peace Foundation. Herter went on to work for Hoover when Hoover became Secretary of Commerce in the Harding Administration.
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