Samuel Flagg Bemis

SAMUEL FLAGG BEMIS (1891-1973) was the Sterling Professor of Diplomatic History and Inter-American Relations at Yale University. He authored, among others, Jay's Treaty: A Study in Commerce and Diplomacy, Pinckney's Treaty: America's Advntage from Europe's Distress (winner of the 1927 Pulitzer Prize), The America Secretaries of State and their Diplomacy, The Diplomacy of the American Revolution, A Diplomatic History of the United States, The Latin America Policy of the United States, John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy (winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize), and John Quincy Adams and the Union. Bemis received his PhD from Harvard University and his BA from Clark University.