Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York
In office March 4, 1923[1] – March 7, 1949
Preceded by
Walter M. Chandler
Succeeded by
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.
Constituency
19th district (1923–45) 20th district (1945–49)
Chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs
In office January 3, 1949 – March 7, 1949
Preceded by
Charles A. Eaton
Succeeded by
John Kee
In office January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1947
Preceded by
Samuel Davis McReynolds
Succeeded by
Charles A. Eaton
Personal details
Born
(1870-03-09)March 9, 1870 Pekin, Illinois, U.S.
Died
March 7, 1949(1949-03-07) (aged 78) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political party
Democratic
Spouse
Evelyn Hechheimer
(m. 1897; died 1941)
Children
1
Sol Bloom (March 9, 1870 – March 7, 1949) was an American song-writer and politician from New York City who began his career as an entertainment impresario and sheet music publisher in Chicago. He served fourteen terms in the United States House of Representatives from the West Side of Manhattan, from 1923 until his death in 1949.
Bloom was the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee from 1939 to 1947 and again in 1949, during a critical period of American foreign policy. In the run-up to World War II, he took charge of high-priority foreign-policy legislation for the Roosevelt Administration, including authorization for Lend Lease in 1940. He oversaw Congressional approval of the United Nations and of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) which worked to assist millions of displaced people in Europe. He was a member of the American delegation at the creation of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945 and at the Rio Conference of 1947.
In October 1943 Bloom tried to dissuade the Hillel Kook-led Bergson Group from marching on Washington with the hope of convincing the Roosevelt administration to help save the remnants of European Jews. He thought that the rabbis looked too un-American and thought their march would be an unseemly spectacle. Bloom adopted the mainstream Zionist position that the only way to save the doomed Jews of Europe was for Mandatory Palestine to become the refuge for Jewish victims of the Holocaust. He urgently lobbied President Harry Truman in 1948 to immediately recognize the Jewish state of Israel, which Truman did. When the Republicans took control of the Foreign Affairs Committee after the 1946 election, Bloom worked closely with the new chairman, Charles Eaton. They secured approval for the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.[2]
^Bloom was elected on January 30, 1923, for the term beginning March 4, 1923. The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress incorrectly states the beginning of his term as his election date.
^Eleonora W. Schoenebaum, ed. Political Profiles: The Truman Years (1978) pp 40–41
SolBloom (March 9, 1870 – March 7, 1949) was an American song-writer and politician from New York City who began his career as an entertainment impresario...
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