Alexander DeConde
Alexander DeConde (November 13, 1920, in
Utica, New York – May 28, 2016, in
Goleta, California) was a historian of
United States diplomatic history. Raised in
California, he attended
San Francisco State College for his B.A. Following graduation in 1943, he attended the U.S. Naval Reserve Midshipmen School in Chicago, IL. He was assigned to the destroyer tender
U.S.S. Whitney (AD-4), and was released from service in 1946. He received his M.A. (1947) and Ph.D (1949) from
Stanford University, where he worked under the direction of
Thomas A. Bailey. He taught at Stanford (1947-48),
Whittier College (1948-52), and
Duke University (1952-57). From 1957 to 1961, he was a professor of history at the
University of Michigan. He subsequently joined the history department at the
University of California at Santa Barbara, where he remained until his retirement in 1991. He helped to establish the
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations together with Joseph P. O'Grady of LaSalle College (Philadelphia) and David M. Pletcher of Indiana University. DeConde served as the Society’s second president and remained actively involved in the organization for the rest of his career. He also held elected and committee roles in the Organization of American History, and served as vice president and president of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association.
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