George Hubbard Blakeslee (August 27, 1871 – May 5, 1954) was an academic, professor of history and international relations at

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, and a founder (along with

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) of the ''

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'', the first American journal devoted to international relations. This journal was later renamed the '' Journal of International Relations'', which in turn was merged with ''

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''. Born in

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, he was the brother of the botanist

Albert Francis Blakeslee Albert Francis Blakeslee (November 9, 1874 – November 16, 1954) was an American botanist. He is best known for his research on the poisonous jimsonweed plant and the sexuality of fungi. He was the brother of the Far East scholar George Hubbard B ...

. Having graduated from

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(A.B.1893, A.M. 1897 ), George Blakeslee then studied at

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and

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between 1901 and 1903. He received his Ph.D. from

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in 1903. He was elected a member of the

American Antiquarian Society The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), located in Worcester, Massachusetts, is both a learned society and a national research library of pre-twentieth-century American history and culture. Founded in 1812, it is the oldest historical society in ...

in 1908. Blakeslee participated in a number of international bodies: the Washington Disarmament Conference of 1921, the

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of 1931–32, and in 1942 led the Far Eastern Unit that was a subcommittee of the Advisory Committee on Postwar Foreign Policy at the

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. This unit, though its designation changed several times before the US occupation of Japan, led to the post-

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on which he served. He was also a member of the board of trustees of the

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. He died at

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in 1954. He was buried in the

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Works (partial list)

* ''Japan and Japanese-American Relations'' (editor) (1912)

References

*''Who's Who in New England'', 1909, p. 115. Retrieved fro
Google Book Search.Biographical Note
The G. H. Blakeslee Papers, Clark University Archives and Special Collections site

External links

* * American historians Wesleyan University alumni Harvard University alumni Leipzig University alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford Clark University faculty 1871 births 1954 deaths Burials at Rural Cemetery (Worcester, Massachusetts) Members of the American Antiquarian Society {{US-historian-stub