This collection contains correspondence between Frances Hull, Barabra Merrill, and Elise Furer Musser.
Click here for the Guide to the Frances Hull papers, circa 1930-1951, mpa.313 / ms.2673. Collection location: row 11, box 15.
Frances Hull was the wife of former U.S. Secretary of State, Cordell Hull. She married Cordell Hull in 1917. She died in 1954.
Cordell Hull was born in Pickett County, TN, in 1871. He attended the National Normal University in Lebanon, OH from 1889-1890 and then studied law at the Cumberland University Law School. He started his political career in the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1893 and continued until 1897. He served in Cuba during the Spanish-American War as a Captain of the Fourth Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Infantry. Hull later became a member of the United States House of Representatives, a
position he held for 11 terms. In 1931 he left the House to become a Senator. In 1933 Hull was selected by then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the Secretary of State, where he became an avid supporter of the United Nations. He served as Secretary of State for 11 years, the longest then and since, until 1944 when he resigned due to failing health. In 1945 Hull received the Nobel Peace Prize. He died in 1955 at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, MD.