Claire Booth Luce ( born Clare Boothe Luce ; 03/10/1903, New York - 10/09/1987, Washington ) is an American playwright , editor , journalist , ambassador , socialite, and US Congresswoman representing Connecticut .
| Claire Booth Luce | |
|---|---|
 Claire Booth Luce in 1932 | |
| Birth name | Anne Booth |
| Date of Birth | April 10, 1903 |
| Place of Birth | New York |
| Date of death | September 10, 1987 (84 years old) |
| Place of death | Washington |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Occupation | playwright , editor , journalist , ambassador , congressman |
| Education | |
| Religion | Roman catholic church |
| The consignment | Republican Party of the USA |
| Children | and |
| Awards |  |
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1983). Sylvanus Thayer Award (1979).
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Biography
Claire Booth Luce was born under the name Ann Booth in New York , the second child of dancer Anna Clara Schneider (aka Schneider, aka Anne Booth) and William Franklin Booth. Her father, a violinist, and a seller of finished over-the-counter medicine, instilled in her daughter a love of music and literature. He spent part of his childhood in Chicago , Illinois ; Memphis , Tennessee ; Union City in New Jersey; and New York, NY . She had an older brother, David Franklin. Claire's unmarried parents divorced in 1912.
Booth graduated from school in Tarritown (New York) in 1919. Her original goal was to become an actress. Booth became interested in the women's suffrage movement.
Booth married George Tuttle Brockau, the heir to clothing stores in New York , on August 10, 1923, at the age of 20. They had one daughter, Ann Claire Brockau (April 25, 1924 - January 11, 1944). According to Booth, Brockau was an alcoholic, and the marriage ended in divorce in 1929. On November 23, 1935, Booth married Henry Luce , a wealthy and influential publisher of Time , Fortune , and Life .
January 11, 1944, daughter of Luce Ann Claire Brockau, a third year student at Stanford University , died in a car accident. As a result of this tragedy, Luce began to study psychotherapy and religion, joining the Roman Catholic Church in 1946, eventually becoming the Lady of Malta .
Political career
In 1943-1947, a member of the US House of Representatives from Connecticut.
Luce in 1944, as a congressman, played an important role in the creation of the Atomic Energy Commission and began to combat the growing threat of international communism. In 1946, she co-authored the Lucy-Seller Act of 1946, which allowed Indian and Filipino immigrants to obtain U.S. citizenship, the number of which was previously limited to a quota of up to 100 immigrants per year due to their skin color.
In 1953-1956, the US ambassador to Italy.
In 1981, the new U.S. President Ronald Reagan awarded her the Presidential Freedom Medal .
Death
Claire Luce died of brain cancer on October 9, 1987, at the age of 84, in her apartment in Watergate, Washington .
Legacy
Since its first grants in 1989, the Claire Booth Luce Program has become the most significant source of private support for women in science, mathematics, and engineering. The organization claims to provide grants of more than $ 120 million to support about 1,550 women. Grants are provided to colleges and universities, not directly to individuals.
Clare Booth Luce Politics Institute
Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute was founded in 1993 by Michelle Easton. [1] The nonprofit research institute aims to support conservative ideas among American women with help similar to the ideas of the late Claire Booth Luce, both in terms of foreign policy and domestic. [2]
Claire Booth Luce Award from the Heritage Foundation
The Clare Luce Booth Award, established in 1991 in memory of Luce, is the Heritage Foundation's highest award for outstanding contributions to the conservative movement. Notable laureates are Ronald Reagan , Margaret Thatcher and William F. Buckley Jr. [3] [4] [5]
Notes
- ↑ Writer, Diplomat Clare Boothe Luce Archived April 21, 2012 at Wayback Machine , cblpi.org
- ↑ About the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute (link not available) . Date of treatment November 15, 2011. Archived August 31, 2009.
- ↑ Rankin, Margaret . Heritage of conservatism is ongoing after 25 years (12 December 1997).
- ↑ Thatcher praises Blair's support for US (10 December 2002). Date of treatment February 16, 2011.
- ↑ William F. Buckley Jr. . National Review Online. Date of treatment February 16, 2011. Archived on September 3, 2012.