Professor William E. Dodd, 71 years of age, former United States Ambassador to Germany, died here yesterday of pneumonia. He was stricken last Wednesday.
Prof Dodd was born October 21, 1869, at Clayton, North Carolina. He was professor of history at the University of Chicago from 1908 until 1933, when he was appointed Ambassador to Germany. He held the latter post until 1937, when he returned to the United States to become trustee of Sweet Briar College in Virginia.
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