David Bryn-Jones was an historian

Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

, educator, Baptist

Baptist

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 minister, and biographer of U.S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg

Frank B. Kellogg

Frank Billings Kellogg was an American lawyer, politician and statesman who served in the U.S. Senate and as U.S. Secretary of State. He co-authored the Kellogg-Briand Pact, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1929..- Biography :Kellogg was born in Potsdam, New York, and his family...

, who won the Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel Peace Prize

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 as one of the authors of the Kellogg-Briand Pact

Kellogg-Briand Pact

The Kellogg–Briand Pact was an agreement signed on August 27, 1928, by the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, Weimar Germany and a number of other countries.The pact renounced war , prohibiting the use of war...

.

Born in Wales

Wales

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 in 1883, Bryn-Jones studied theology

Theology

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 and political science

Political science

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 in the University College of North Wales. Before leaving Britain for the United States, he served as lecturer at a Welsh university and as pastor of churches at Birkenhead

Birkenhead

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 and Newcastle-on-Tyne.http://www.crk.umn.edu/NWmonthly/Northwest%20Monthly%201936%20Vol%2020%20No%204%20March.pdf

Bryn-Jones joined the faculty of Carleton College

Carleton College

Carleton College is an independent non-sectarian, coeducational, liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, USA. The college enrolls 1,958 undergraduate students, and employs 198 full-time faculty members. In 2012 U.S...

 in Northfield, Minnesota

Northfield, Minnesota

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, in 1920. At Carleton he taught history, economics, and political science from 1920 until his retirement in 1951. While at Carleton, he also served as minister at Trinity Baptist Church in Minneapolis, where he was the full-time minister beginning in 1927.

Bryn-Jones' main interest was in contemporary relations among world powers. During his later years at Carleton, he was a founder and later chairman of a new academic department of government

Government

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 and international relations

International relations

International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...

, in which he held the title of Frank B. Kellogg Professor of International Relations

Kellogg Foundation for Education in International Relations

In 1937 Frank B. Kellogg established for Carleton College the Frank B. Kellogg Foundation for Education in International Relations with a $500,000 endowment. Kellogg was a trustee of the college at the time...

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In 1937 Bryn-Jones released the authorized biography

Biography

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 of his personal acquaintance, former U.S. Senator and Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg

Frank B. Kellogg

Frank Billings Kellogg was an American lawyer, politician and statesman who served in the U.S. Senate and as U.S. Secretary of State. He co-authored the Kellogg-Briand Pact, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1929..- Biography :Kellogg was born in Potsdam, New York, and his family...

, who died that same year.

Legacy

Bryn-Jones was married to the former Marian Adams, a Carleton graduate who worked for the college for many years as a librarian. After her death in 2002, the college received a bequest of $1.4 million from the couple's estate.

Books by David Bryn-Jones

• Frank B. Kellogg: A Biography. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1937. (Reissued in 2007: ISBN 9781432589820)
• Toward a Democratic New Order. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1945. 288 pages.
• The Dilemma of the Idealist. Macmillan, 1950. 278 pages.