consultants there to lead their delegation. He helped draft the Charter of the United Nations as a private consultant to the U.S. State Department. From 1949 to 1950, he served as the Director of Economics and History (1942–49) then president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace – succeeding Alger Hiss, who was indicted in the wake of allegations by Whittaker Chambers that became the "Hiss Case." Nobel nomination In 1952, Shotwell was nominated for the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize, which went un-awarded until the following year, when Albert Schweizer received it. Private life Marriage Shotwell was married to Margaret Harvey and had two daughters, Helen and Margaret Grace. Woodstock He maintained a home in Woodstock, New York and was instrumental in getting American artist Anita Miller Smith to become a writer and to publish the service record of all Woodstock people who had fought in the war as part of Smith's 1959 book on the town's official history. Death Shotwell died of a stroke at his apartment at 257 West 86th Street in Manhattan at age 90. Legacy The James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations chair at Columbia University was named in his honor. In summarizing his career, Lisa Anderson (then dean of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs) wrote: James T. Shotwell represented the first generation of genuinely cosmopolitan American policy intellectuals. His obituary in the New York Times observed that he was "among the most respected and dedicated protagonists of internationalism in the United States," a man who saw "the world as a whole." In many respects, this vision was to remain a minority view in the United States, particularly as the Cold War consumed the second half of the twentieth century, and Shotwell was well aware of the obstacles to its realization. Reflecting on the impact of what he called "the great communist controversy" on the United Nations, he wrote that "the full and adequate implementation of the revolutionary concept in the Charter may be long delayed." He was, however, at heart an irredeemable optimist: "The success or failure of that organization is a measure of civilization itself. There can be no surer guarantee of its ultimate success." Shotwell's combination of scholarly enthusiasm, pragmatic engagement in the world, and abiding optimism, his conviction that social scientists should deploy their learning to public purposes, his faith that human intervention might improve the human condition,