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  Earle, George H.
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AffiliationDemocratic  
 
NameGeorge H. Earle
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, Pennsylvania , United States
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Born December 05, 1890
DiedDecember 30, 1974 (84 years)
ContributorThomas Walker
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Oct 04, 2009 07:57pm
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InfoGeorge Howard Earle III was an American politician. He served as the U.S. Minister to Austria from 1933 to 1934, and as the governor of Pennsylvania from 15 January 1935 to 17 January 1939.

In 1943, when Earle was a United States Navy Lieutenant Commander and the President's special emissary to the Balkans, he presented a plan to President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) that Earle believed might end the war in Europe early. The German ambassador and the head of the German secret service secretly proposed to Earle that German troops could surround Hitler’s headquarters and turn Hitler over to the Allies as a war criminal. German troops then would be repositioned to defend against the Russian military. The plot was never approved.

In 1944, FDR assigned Earle to compile information on the Katyń massacre, the massacre of the Polish intelligentsia by the Soviet government. Earle did so, using contacts in Bulgaria and Romania, and concluded that the Soviet Union was guilty.

After consulting with Elmer Davis, the director of the Office of War Information, Roosevelt rejected Earle's conclusion, saying that he was convinced of the responsibility of Nazi Germany, and ordered Earle's report suppressed. When Earle formally requested permission to publish his findings, the President gave him a written order to desist. Earle was reassigned and spent the rest of World War II in American Samoa.

After the war, Earle became the first governor of a US state to be divorced. In 1945, he remarried to Jacqueline Sacre of Belgium with whom he had a daughter and a son. That same year, he was appointed assistant governor of Samoa. After his term in that office he returned to private business.


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Son Hubert P. Earle 0000-
Father George H. Earle, Jr. 1856-1928
Grandfather George H. Earle Sr. 1823-1907
Great-Grandfather Thomas Earle 1796-1849

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  02/14/1940 US Ambassador to Bulgaria Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/08/1938 PA US Senate Lost 44.42% (-10.29%)
  05/17/1938 PA US Senate - D Primary Won 64.57% (+36.70%)
  11/06/1934 PA Governor Won 50.04% (+2.25%)
  05/15/1934 PA Governor - D Primary Won 60.68% (+44.33%)
  07/24/1933 US Ambassador to Austria Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
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PA US President - Nov 02, 1948 R Thomas E. Dewey