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1070: 994: 1004: 31: 368:, she invited the workers who furnished her official residence and their families to a house-warming party. Anderson also learned and spoke publicly in Danish which was unusual as such language skills were not seen as necessary at the time. Her popularity and high profile allowed her to exert some political force: she convinced Denmark to make a stronger commitment to 312: 395:(1962–1964). Thus, Anderson became the first American woman to represent the United States in a country allied with the Soviet Union. She was also the first American diplomat to speak on Bulgarian television and radio. While ambassador to Bulgaria, Anderson negotiated the settlement of outstanding Bulgarian debts to the US from World War II. 414:. Anderson was the first woman to sit on the UN's Security Council. A year later in 1966, she served on the United Nations Committee for Decolonization, which supported newly independent countries in Africa and Asia. In 1968, Anderson was briefly engaged as Special Assistant to the 316: 314: 359:
in 1933). Despite undercurrents of sexism and discomfort in the press with her career flaunting gender roles, she was well-known in Denmark and was sometimes called "Auntie Anderson" by the media. Anderson was a strong proponent for
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in 1944. Four years later, as one of the few women, she was elected to an office in the national Democratic Party. In 1948, as the DFL split from the national Democratic Party in a controversy over goals and ideology, she supported
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in 1929, where she graduated in 1931. It was there she met her husband, John Pierce Anderson, whom she married in 1929 and with whom she had two children, Hans and Johanna.
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Truman's appointment made her the first woman appointed chief of mission at the ambassador level in US history. (The first female chief of mission at the minister rank was
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Anderson's interest in international affairs had been stirred by a trip to Europe in 1937, where in Germany she first saw a
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diplomat. She is best known as the first woman appointed chief of mission at the ambassador level in US history.
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In 1958 Anderson campaigned for, but did not win, the DFL nomination for U.S. Senator, which ultimately went to
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in New York; her original hope was to become a concert pianist. She was a member of the Iowa Beta chapter of
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in September of 1968. She continued to work for Humphrey's political campaigns. Anderson died in
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Mrs. Ambassador: The Life and Politics of Eugenie Anderson Paperback – March 1, 2019
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Helen Eugenie Moore Anderson in MNopedia, the Minnesota Encyclopedia
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as she recalled. On her return she spoke frequently for the
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Women's Fraternity at Simpson College. She transferred to
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Few Are Chosen: American Women in Political Life Today
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appointed Anderson member of the US delegation to the
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United States Ambassador to Bulgaria
John F. Kennedy
Edward Page, Jr.
Nathaniel Davis
United States Ambassador to Denmark
Harry S. Truman
Josiah Marvel, Jr.
Robert D. Coe
Adair, Iowa
Red Wing, Minnesota
Democratic
Diplomat
Politician
United States
Adair, Iowa
Juilliard School
Pi Beta Phi
Carleton College
League of Women Voters
Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
Hubert H. Humphrey
President Truman
U.S. ambassador to Denmark
Ruth Bryan Owen
people's diplomacy
King Frederik
NATO
King Frederik IX
Order of Dannebrog

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