Eugenie Moore Anderson (1909-1997) was a founder of the DFL - Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota in 1944. She became the first woman in history to receive an appointment as a U.S. Ambassador in 1949, when President Harry S. Truman named her to head the U.S. Embassy in Denmark, a post she held until January 1953.
In 1962 she was sent on a diplomatic mission behind the Iron Curtain when President John F. Kennedy appointed her minister to Bulgaria. From 1965 to 1968 Eugenie Anderson was a member of the U.S. delegation to the U.N.
Mrs. Anderson's experience abroad made her a useful friend and ally to the Freemans as they embarked on their first Goodwill Tour to Scandinavia in 1955. Eugenie Anderson is pictured here at the DFL State Convention held in Albert Lea in 1954.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Date: 1954
Identifer: location J2 1954 p4
