Alexander deconde biography

US diplomatic historian

Alexander DeConde (November 13, 1920, in Utica, New York – May 28, 2016, in Goleta, California)^[1][2] was a historian of United States diplomatic history. Raised in California, he attended San Francisco State College for his B.A.

Following graduation in 1943, he attended the U.S. Naval Reserve Midshipmen School in Chicago, IL. He was assigned to the destroyer tender U.S.S. Whitney (AD-4), and was released from service in 1946.^[3] He received his M.A. (1947) and Ph.D (1949) from Stanford University,^[4] where he worked under the direction of Thomas A.

Bailey. He taught at Stanford (1947-48), Whittier College (1948-52), and Duke University (1952-57).^[4] From 1957 to 1961, he was a professor of history at the University of Michigan.^[5] He subsequently joined the history department at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he remained until his retirement in 1991.

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