- US State Department official accused of passing secrets to the Soviet government. Convicted of perjury in 1950.
- Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 272-274. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- In August 1948 former Communist Whittaker Chambers accused Hiss of being a fellow member of an underground Soviet spy cell named The Ware Group, which Chambers claimed was founded by the son of American Communist Party co-founder Ella Reeve. Hiss denied the allegation but was eventually convicted of perjury and sentenced to five years in federal prison.
- His wife was the ex-wife of Thayer Hobson, owner of book publisher William Morrow; after their divorce, Hobson married Laura Z. Hobson.
- In 1947 he was named president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
- Served as secretary-general at the founding of the United Nations in San Francisco.
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