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Francis Bowes Sayre (April 30, 1885 – March 29, 1972) was a professor at Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, it is the United States' oldest law school in continuous operation....
. He later served as ambassador to Siam, High Commissioner of the Philippines, U.S. representative to the United Nations Trusteeship Council, and Assistant Secretary of State for President Franklin Roosevelt.






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Francis Bowes Sayre (April 30, 1885 – March 29, 1972) was a professor at Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, it is the United States' oldest law school in continuous operation....
. He later served as ambassador to Siam, High Commissioner of the Philippines, U.S. representative to the United Nations Trusteeship Council, and Assistant Secretary of State for President Franklin Roosevelt. Sayre's immediate subordinate in his capacity of Assistant Secretary of State was Alger Hiss
Alger Hiss

Alger Hiss was a United States Department of State official involved in the establishment of the United Nations. He was accused of being a Soviet Union spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950....
, although Sayre declined to testify as a character witness for the defense at Hiss's perjury trials.

On 26 November 1913, he married Jessie Wilson (1887-1933), the daughter of President Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States. A devout Presbyterianism and leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton University of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913....
, in a ceremony at the White House. His son, Francis B. Sayre, Jr., (1915-2008) was dean of the National Cathedral in Washington from 1951 until his retirement in 1978.

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