16312.23521 Matilda 10 Bigelow, daughter
of Nelson Pendleton 9 ( Anson Alexander 8 (
Anson 7 , Erastus 6 , David 5 , David 4 , Lt. John 3 , Joshua 2, John 1), and Sophia Dallas
(Borda) Bigelow, was born 15 January 1895 at Chicago, Cook Co., IL.
Resident of New York City, New York. She died 27 July 1972 in Newport,
Rhode Island.
She married 03 March 1915 to Herbert Claiborne Pell, who was born
12 February 1884 and died 17 July 1961,
2 sons?. She married (2) Hugh Koehler (b 19 July 1886; d 17
June 1941), 1 son: Hugh Kohler II.
Child of Herbert Claiborne and Matilda (Bigelow) Pell:
16312.23521.1 Claiborne deBorda 11 Pell,
b 22 Nov 1918 New York City; d 01 Jan 2009 Newport, Newport co, RI age 90;
m ca 1945 Nuala O'Donnell;
Children of Claiborne and Nuala (O'Donnell) Pell:
16312.23521.1 Christopher T.H. Pell, b _____ ; d _____
;
16312.23521.1 Dallas Pell, b _____ ; d _____ ;
16312.23521.1 Julia Pell, b _____ ; d ___ 2006;
16312.23521.1 HerbertPell, b _____ ; d ___ 1999 ;
Source:
Bigelow Society Quarterly, "Forge," Jan 1973, Vol 2, No 1, pg 7;
Big Soc Genealogist Jean Bigelow;
Obituaries in National newspers 2009;
Sen. Claiborne Pell at a committee meeting announcing his retirement in
1995
Senator Claiborne deBorda Pell "was born in New York City on November
22, 1918. He served as United States Senator from Rhode Island from 1961-1997.
He was elected in 1960 and re-elected in 1966, 1972, 1978, 1984 and 1990
and was the longest serving Senator in Rhode Island history.
"He has served as Chairman of the Committee for Foreign Relations; Chairman
of the Subcommittee on Education, Arts and Humanities; Member of the Committee
on Labor and Human Resources; Chairman of the Committee on Rules and Administrations;
Member of the Democratic Policy Committee; and served on the Executive Committee
of the Environmental and Energy Study conference.
"He is an honorary Vice President of the American Bible Society, an honorary
trustee of St. George's School and trustee emeritus of Brown University.
He has been a member of the Board of Visitors of both the United States Naval
Academy and the United States Coast Guard. He is director of the Society
of Friends of Touro Synagogue of Newport and attends Trinity Episcopal Church
in Newport. Senator Pell is also a trustee of Save the Bay. He has written
two books, Power and Policy: America's Role in World Affairs (1972) and
Megalopolis Unbound (1966) and co-author of a third, Challenge of the Seven
Seas (1966).
"Claiborne Pell was born in New York City into a family with a long history
of public service. His father, Herbert Claiborne Pell, was a Congressman,
a Democratic State Chairman, and later, U.S. Minister to Portugal and Hungary.
His ancestors include five Members of Congress, one of whom, George M. Dallas,
also served as Vice President of the United States under President James
Polk.
"A graduate of St. George's School in Middletown, R.l., he earned his A.B.
degree (summa cum laude) in history from Princeton University in 1940 and
his M.A. degree from Columbia University. He has received honorary doctorates
from 51 colleges and universities.
"He has received 20 decorations, including the Presidential Citizens Medal,
the second highest non-military award of the United States, and was awarded
medals by both the Kingdom and the Republic of Italy, four by Portugal,
two by the Netherlands, and by France, Sweden, Greece, Liechtenstein, Austria,
Luxembourg, Lebanon, Pakistan, the Knights of Malta and by Cardinal Koenig
of Austria.
"He enlisted in the Coast Guard four months before the attack on Pearl
Harbor and started his Coast Guard career as a ship's cook. He received
a commission while aboard ship and served in the North Atlantic and in Sicily,
where he helped rebuild the fishing industry. After the war's end, he continued
in the Coast Guard Reserve, from which he retired in 1978 with the rank
of Captain. Claiborne Pell was arrested three times by Fascist governments
and three times by Communist governments.
"After the war, he participated in the San Francisco Conference that created
the United Nations. He then served seven years as a State Department official
and Foreign Service Officer. He is the only member of the Senate to have
been a Foreign Service Officer. During his diplomatic career, he held posts
in Czechoslovakia following the Communist takeover.
"After resigning from the Foreign Service, Pell spent eight years in business
and political activities. During that time he also was Vice President of
the International Rescue Committee for which he directed Hungarian refugee
activities in Austria following the Hungarian Revolution.
"In 1960, he sought the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat of retiring
Senator Theodore Francis Green and became the first unendorsed candidate
in Rhode Island history ever to win a state-wide primary. He was elected
in the general election by the largest plurality in Rhode Island history
up to that time.
"Pell was the principal sponsor of a 1965 law establishing the National
Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and was
the Senate author of the National Sea Grant College and Program Act of 1966,
a program funded at about $40 million annually - including about $1.5 million
that goes to the University of Rhode Island.
"On the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Pell was an early and outspoken
opponent of United States military involvement in Vietnam and has been a
vigorous supporter of arms control agreements, including a mutual, verifiable
nuclear freeze. He has taken the lead in proposals to ensure peaceful uses
of the oceans and international cooperation in protection of the environment.
"His leadership, both in the Committee and on the Senate Floor, helped
secure overwhelming ratification of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF)
treaty to reduce nuclear weapons. He also fathered a treaty prohibiting
the use of environmental modification techniques as weapons of war.
"Claiborne Pell also has taken a leading role in eliminating financial
barriers to higher education. His legislation created the Basic Educational
Opportunity Grants which Congress named Pell Grants in 1980.
"A member of the Presidential Commission on Drunk Driving, he was the original
Senate advocate behind the federal legislation to help crack down on drunk
driving. A set of tough drunk driving measures, initially proposed by Claiborne
Pell, was signed into law in 1982.
"He was also the originator behind the High Speed Ground Transportation
Act to improve rail passenger service and his efforts were instrumental in
the implementation of the downtown Providence railroad relocation project
and the construction of the new Providence AMTRAK Station.
"His legislation resulted in the establishment of a career service for
Foreign Service Information Officers. Another of his bills authorized the
creation of a National Police Memorial, dedicated to local, state, and federal
law enforcement officials who lost their lives in the performance of duty.
"He has been the primary sponsor of specialized bills dealing with such
areas as environmental education, libraries, historic preservation, education
for the handicapped, and amendments to cushion the economic impact of severe
defense cutbacks on Rhode Island.
"He was appointed by President Eisenhower as a delegate to the initial
meeting of the International Maritime Consultative Organization in 1959
and was a delegate to the 25th United Nations General Assembly in 1970.
He served often as a Senate advisor to the U.S. delegation to the United
Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. He also was the first Senate advisor
appointed to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) and has served as
a member of the Commission on Improving the Effectiveness of the United Nations.
"He was a Senate representative at the first environmental conference in
Stockholm in 1972. He was the only Senator who participated in the Stockholm
meeting who also was a Senate representative at the follow-up United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro
in 1992.
"Claiborne Pell was appointed by President Clinton as a Representative
of the United States of America to the 51st Session of the General Assembly
of the United Nations in 1996.
"In 1997, he was granted the status of Distinguished Visiting Professor
at Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island.
"Claiborne Pell is married to the former Nuala O'Donnell. They have three
children - a son, Christopher, and two daughters, Dallas Pell Yates and
Julia Pell. Their son Herbert III passed away in 1999. The Pells have five
grandchildren."
Pol. Graveyard: Pell, Claiborne de Borda (1918-2009) — also known
as Claiborne Pell; "Senator Oddball" — of Newport, Newport County, R.I. Born
in Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., November 22, 1918. Great-great-great-grandnephew
of William Charles Cole Claiborne and Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne; great-great-grandnephew
of George Mifflin Dallas; great-great-grandson of John Francis Hamtramck
Claiborne; son of Herbert Claiborne Pell, Jr. and Matilda (Bigelow) Pell;
married 1944 to Nuala O'Donnell. Democrat. U.S. Senator from Rhode Island,
1961-97; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, 1964.
Episcopalian. Member, Society of the Cincinnati; Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, from Parkinson's disease, in Newport, Newport County, R.I., January
1, 2009. Burial location unknown.
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