Herbert Pell
Pell was recognized as an internationalist on foreign policy and a progressive despite coming from the wealthy and conservative class, which tended to be isolationist.He was the leading American seeking to build awareness of the plight of European Jews in the 1930s and 1940s and prevent the Holocaust, and was able to aid in holding the perpetrators responsible as the principal U.S. sponsor of and U.S. representative of the War Crimes Commission.He was also a direct descendant of Wampage I, a Siwanoy chieftain, as reflected in a Congressional Record entry relating to his son Claiborne Pell.[3] Pell's political career began as a member of the Progressive committee of Orange County, New York (1912 to 1914).[15] His funeral was held at Trinity Church in Newport, Rhode Island where there is a memorial plaque in his honor.1981), a candidate for Governor of Rhode Island, who married two-time Olympic medalist Michelle Kwan (b.