The Life and Accomplishments of Cordell Hull Cordell Hull was born in Overton County, Tenn. A Tennessee legislator and judge, Democratic national committee chairman, U.S. representative (1907-1931) and senator (1931-1933), he became the longest-termed secretary of state ever under President Franklin Roosevelt (1933-1944). A strong advocate of free trade and of the "Good Neighbor" policy with South America during the 1930s, he early advocated strong support for the Allies, attended most of the great …showed first 75 words of 1092 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1092 total…and Their Diplomacy. New York, Cooper Square Publishers, 1964. Hull, Cordell, Economic Barriers to Peace: Addresses on the Occasion of the Presentation of the Woodrow Wilson Medal to the Hon. Cordell Hull, N.Y., April 5, 1937. New York, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 1937. Hinton, Harold B., Cordell Hull: A Biography, with a Foreword by Sumner Welles. London and New York, Hurst & Blackett, 1942. Buell, Raymond Leslie, The Hull Trade Program and the American System. New York, Foreign Policy Association, 1938.