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Added: Oct 9, 2002. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 6841866. Source citation. U.S. Diplomat. He served as High Commissioner to the Philppines, 1929-1942 and was a Delegate to the United Nations following World War II. In 1933, Sayre left Harvard University's law faculty for the State Department and where he picked Alger Hiss to be his assistant.
Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr. was born on April 30, 1885, in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the son of Robert Heysham Sayre, a civil engineer and official of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Education Sayre, Sr. graduated from Williams College in 1909 and from the Harvard Law School in 1912.
Eleanor Axson Sayre was born on March 26, 1916, at Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Jessie Woodrow (née Wilson) and Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr. She was the granddaughter of President Woodrow Wilson , [1] who served as her godfather at her christening on 11 November 1916 at St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church in Williamstown, Massachusetts .
Francis B. Sayre Jr., who as dean of Washington National Cathedral for 27 years oversaw much of its completion and used his pulpit to confront McCarthyism, racial tensions and the Vietnam War, died Oct. 3 at his home on Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
14 de oct. de 2008 · Francis Bowes Sayre Jr. was born in the White House on Jan. 17, 1915. He was the fourth grandchild of Wilson and the first-born of the president's daughter Jessie.
Francis Bowes Sayre Jr. (January 17, 1915 – October 3, 2008) was Dean of the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., for 27 years. He was the first grandchild of President Woodrow Wilson. He was a vocal opponent of segregation, poverty, McCarthyism, and the Vietnam War. In March 1965 he joined Martin Luther King Jr. on the voting-rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama ...
From the National Cathedral web site 10/23/2008 The Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre, Jr., dean of Washington National Cathedral from 1951 to 1978, died peacefully in his sleep on Friday, October 3, 2008.
