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Alger Hiss was born on November 11, 1904 in Baltimore, Maryland he attended John Hopkins University and Harvard University. He was an American lawyer and governmental official. He was known for many things, he help start the United Nations he was the secretary. He was accused of being a Communist and a soviet spy in 1948. And was convicted of perjury in 1950. These trials lasted almost his entire career.
After he completed college in 1929 his law professor and good friend Felix Frankfurter gave him a recommendation. He was appointed a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He then left his position and accepted one at a law firm in Boston. He was influenced by the political and economic crisis of the great depression to abandon in 1933 a promising career with the Agriculture Adjustment Agency. (2)He assisted the staff of the senate special committee to investigate the munitions industry aka the Nye committee. In august of 1935 he became a consultant with the department of justice.
During the outbreak of World War II, hiss came to devote his time and talents to the task of formulating and developing the structure of the United Nations. He was also a member of the U.S. delegation for the Yalta conference. He was appointed as the head of the State Department’s Office of Special Policy Planning. (2)He also was the executive secretary of the San Francisco Conference at which the United Nations Charter was drafted and approved.
Hiss’s career took a sharp turn by a series of events their origins coming from a highly charged confrontation between the congressional conservatives and the Truman administration during the cold war. On August 3, 1948 the House committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) which was dominated ...

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...uring the cold war and with relations with foreign nations even long after the cold war.

Works Cited
1. Gay, James Thomas. "The Alger Hiss Spy Case." American History 33.2 (1998): 26. Gale Power Search. Web. 21 Jan. 2014. .
2. "Hiss, Alger (1904-1996)." Encyclopedia of World Biography. Detroit: Gale, 1998. N. pag. Gale Power Search. Web. 21 Jan. 2014. .
3. Lagassé, Paul. "Hiss, Alger." The Columbia Encyclopedia. 6th ed. New York: Columbia UP, 2000. N. pag. Gale Power Search. Web. 21 Jan. 2014.

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