17 Facts About Eugenie Anderson

Eugenie Anderson, known as Helen Eugenie Moore Anderson, was a United States diplomat.

Eugenie Anderson is best known as the first woman appointed chief of mission at the ambassador level in US history.

Helen Eugenie Moore was born on May 26,1909, in Adair, Iowa, one of five children of Rev Ezekial A Moore, a Methodist minister, and his wife, FloraBelle.

Eugenie Anderson concentrated in music as a student and attended the Juilliard School in New York; her original hope was to become a concert pianist.

Eugenie Anderson was a member of the Iowa Beta chapter of Pi Beta Phi Women's Fraternity at Simpson College.

Eugenie Anderson transferred to Carleton College in 1929, where she graduated in 1931.

Eugenie Anderson helped to create the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in 1944.

Eugenie Anderson was rewarded for this support in 1949, when she was appointed by President Truman as US ambassador to Denmark.

Eugenie Anderson was a strong proponent for people's diplomacy, or public diplomacy.

Eugenie Anderson learned and spoke publicly in Danish which was unusual as such language skills were not seen as necessary at the time.

In 1958 Eugenie Anderson campaigned for, but did not win, the DFL nomination for US Senator, which ultimately went to Eugene McCarthy.

Eugenie Anderson was later appointed by Kennedy to be ambassador to Bulgaria.

Eugenie Anderson was the first American diplomat to speak on Bulgarian television and radio.

Eugenie Anderson was the first woman to sit on the UN's Security Council.

In 1968, Eugenie Anderson was briefly engaged as Special Assistant to the Secretary.

Eugenie Anderson retired from the State Department in September of 1968.

Eugenie Anderson died in Red Wing, Minnesota at the age of 87.