Eugenie Moore Anderson

From Work in Progress (Autumn-Winter 1949-1950)

      The new ambassador to Denmark is a long-time student of General Semantics.  EUGENIE ANDERSON (Mrs. John P.) of Red Wing, Minnesota, attended a seminar at the Institute as noted in the New York Herald Tribune interview, but not in others which came to our attention.  Other students of the August Intensive Seminar 1940 will remember her as a member of that group.  In 1941 she and Mr. Anderson and Dr. and Mrs. R. F. Hedin (Mr. Anderson's sister) sponsered a brief seminar in Red Wing at the Tri-State Clinic.  Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Hedin were interested in applying Korzybski's work in the nursery school they conducted for several years.  Mr. Anderson's work is ell-known to admirers of 'constructionist' art.  Charles Biederman (author of Art as the Evolution of Visual Knowledge, 1948) also has lived and worked in Red Wing for many years and, as far as we know, Red Wing is the place to see examples of 'constructionist' art in the greatest variety.

General Semantics Bulletin, Autumn-Winter 1949-1950, Numbers One & Two
Lakeville, Connecticut : Institute of General Semantics 1950, p. 29.

From Women in American History, 1999 by Encyclopedia Britannica

Anderson, Helen Eugenie Moore

(1909-1997), diplomat

Eugenie Moore was born on May 26, 1909, in Adair, Iowa. She attended Stephens College (Columbia, Missouri) in 1926-27, Simpson College (Indianola, Iowa) in 1927-28, and Carleton College (Northfield, Minnesota) in 1929-30; she took no degree. In 1930 she married John P. Anderson. During two years in New York City she studied piano at the Juilliard School's Institute of Musical Art. She and her husband settled in his hometown of Red Wing, Minnesota, where she developed a strong interest in foreign affairs and became a leader of and lecturer for the Minnesota League of Women Voters.

In 1944 she became active in state Democratic politics, helping to effect the Democratic-Farmer-Labor fusion and becoming county party chairman. In 1946 she was named to the party's state executive committee, and in 1940 she was named to the party's national committee. Her effective campaigning that year on behalf of President Harry S. Truman and Senator Hubert H. Humphrey led to her appointment in October 1949 as U.S. ambassador to Denmark. She was the first American woman to hold that rank, . . . (etc).

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From The Political Graveyard 2003 by Lawrence Kestenbaum

Anderson, Helen Eugenie Moore (1909-1997) -- also known as Eugenie Anderson; Mrs. John Pierce Anderson -- of Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minn. Born in Adair, Adair County, Iowa, May 26, 1909. Vice-chair of Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, 1946-49; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1948, 1960; member of Democratic National Committee from Minnesota, 1948-49; U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, 1949-53; U.S. Minister to Bulgaria, 1962-64. Female. Methodist. Member, Americans for Democratic Action; League of Women Voters; Pi Beta Phi. Second female U.S. ambassador. Died in Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minn., March 31, 1997. Burial location unknown.

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From Eugenie Moore Andersonm 2004 by Minnesota Historical Society

Eugenie Moore Anderson of Red Wing helped to create the DFL � the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota � in 1944. Four years later, as one of the few women among the forceful leaders of the fledgling party, she was elected to an office in the national Democratic Party. In 1948, when the DFL split from the national Democratic Party in a controversy over goals and ideology, she supported Hubert H. Humphrey and the DFL. In 1949, she had the distinction of becoming the first American woman ambassador when President Harry Truman named her ambassador to Denmark. Later, as minister to Bulgaria, she became the first American woman to represent the United States in a country allied with the Soviet Union.

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