Edward Riley Stettinius Jr.

Stettinius, Edward Riley, Jr. (1900–49), U.S. businessperson and politician. By age 35, he was chairman (1935–39) of the finance committee of the U.S. Steel Corp. and president at 39 (1939). In government he was lend-lease administrator (1941–43), undersecretary and then secretary of state (1943–45), and a founder-delegate and U.S. representative to the UN (1945–46).