Norman Davis (diplomat)

Norman Davis
2nd United States Under Secretary of State
In office
June 15, 1920 – March 7, 1921
PresidentWoodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Preceded byFrank Polk
Succeeded byHenry P. Fletcher
Personal details
Born
Norman Hezekiah Davis

(1878-08-09)August 9, 1878
Normandy, Tennessee, U.S.
DiedJuly 2, 1944(1944-07-02) (aged 65)
Hot Springs, Virginia, U.S.
Spouse
Mackie Paschall
(m. 1898; died 1942)
Children8
EducationVanderbilt University
Stanford University

Norman Hezekiah Davis (August 9, 1878 – July 2, 1944) was a U.S. diplomat. He joined the Treasury Department in 1917, serving as President Wilson's chief financial advisor at the Paris Peace Conference. In 1919 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and the following year became Under Secretary of State.[1][2]

  1. ^ Arnold A. Offner, American Appeasement (1976), 21
  2. ^ August Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson (1991), 564, provides an example of Wilson issuing a directive to the financial counselor, Norman Davis.