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Joseph Edward Davies (November 29, 1876 – May 9, 1958) was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was appointed by President Wilson to be Commissioner of Corporations in 1912, and he was the first chairman of the Federal Trade Commission in 1915.
Joseph E. Davies (1876–1958) was the United States' second ambassador to the Soviet Union during the 1930s, a time when that communist power was ruled by brutal dictator Josef Stalin. Davies became controversial for casting the Soviet government in a positive light, glossing over its atrocities, and promoting U.S.-Soviet cooperation .
Mar 3, 2017 · In Nov.16, 1936, Joseph Edward Davies was appointed to be the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union by President Roosevelt. Davies was the only western diplomat in the Soviet history who was...
Jun 1, 2007 · Joseph E. Davies is best known for his controversial service as U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1937–38. His 1941 book, Mission to Moscow, and the movie based on that book, provided a highly favorable image of the Soviet Union during World War II, when both the United States and Russia were warring against Nazi Germany.
- Elizabeth Kimball Maclean
- 1980
Joseph E. Davies was a close friend of Franklin Roosevelt and a controversial ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1937-38. He also played a key role as a personal intermediary between the White House and the Soviet embassy in Washington during World War II, when he was sent on a mission to Stalin in 1943.
Extract. In response to an enormous growth of trusts in the late nineteenth century, demands for reform among a wide spectrum of interest groups culminated in the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1915. Playing an influential, though little-recognized role in framing this legislation was Wisconsin progressive Democrat Joseph E. Davies.
Joseph Edward Davies (November 29, 1876 – May 9, 1958) was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was appointed by President Wilson to be Commissioner of Corporations in 1912, and he was the first chairman of the Federal Trade Commission in 1915.
