Call Number:

MC065

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Public Policy Papers

Extent:

41 boxes

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Joseph C. Green Papers, Box and Folder Number; Public Policy Papers, Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

circa 1907-1977 (inclusive) and 1931-1953 (bulk)

Creator:

Green, Joseph Coy, 1887-1978

Form:

Correspondence., Diaries., Lecture notes., Lectures., Photographs., and Scrapbooks

Abstract:

Joseph Coy Green (Princeton Class of 1908) served in a number of State Department positions, including his appointment as special representative to the International Institute of Agriculture in Rome (1931), chairman of the Armaments Commission (1944-1946), member of the U.S. Mission to observe the elections in Greece (1946), director of the Foreign Service Board of Examiners, and ambassador to Jordan (1952-1953). Included in this collection are correspondence, journals, scrapbooks, diaries, reports, notes, and printed matter.

Joseph Coy Green was a history scholar and diplomat. Born in 1887 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Green graduated from Princeton University in 1908. He became a fellow in Princeton's history department after graduation and returned to the university in 1920 as a professor in the history and politics departments. He left Princeton for a position at the United States Department of State, where he worked between 1930 and 1952. He was appointed Ambassador to Jordan in 1952. Green died in 1978.

This collection consists mainly of papers of Joseph Coy Green (Princeton Class of 1908) relating to his government positions: as an official in the Department of State including his appointment as special representative to the International Institute of Agriculture in Rome (1931), chairman of the Armaments Commission (1944-1946), member of the U.S. Mission to observe the elections in Greece (1946), director of the Foreign Service Board of Examiners, and ambassador to Jordan (1952-1953). Among other subjects covered in the papers are World War I Belgium relief, American neutrality policy (1935-1939), the Alger Hiss case, and American policy during the Spanish Civil War. Included are correspondence, journals, scrapbooks, diaries, reports, notes, and printed matter.

In addition, there are files of papers, lectures, and grade books from Green's student years and, later, as assistant and associate professor of history and politics (1920-1930) at Princeton; papers concerning his service in the army in World War I; articles, correspondence, and card files as special editor (1929-1935) of American Indian terms for Webster's New International Dictionary; and correspondence (1906-1952) with his brothers, Matthew and Robert Green.

This is an unprocessed collection and remains in its original arrangement.

Arranged and labeled by Joseph Coy Green. This listing is a gathering of his descriptive labels.