The Resume

(August 7, 1904-December 9, 1971)
Born in Detroit, Michigan
Chaired the Political Science Department at Howard University (1928-50)
Involved in prelimnary planning for the United Nations at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference (1944)
Helped draft the UN Charter
UN Mediator in Palestine, Congo, Yemen, Kashmir and Cyprus
UN Under-Secretary General (1968-71)
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1963)
Won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating a armistace between Israel and neighboring Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon (1950)

Why he might be annoying:

He was a chain smoker.
His frequent travels prompted his wife to complain, 'I must realize that as you grow more important, you will be away from us the best part of our lives and I'll always have the responsibility of raising our three children alone.'
He initially wanted to turn down the Nobel Prize, drafting a letter stating 'peacekeeping at the United Nations was not done for prizes,' but was persuaded by Secretary General Trygvie Lee to accept.
He was dismissed as irrelevant by later, more militant black leaders, with Malcolm X calling him 'A black man who didn't know his history.'

Why he might not be annoying:

Over a period of a few months when he was 13, his father left home to look for work and never returned and his mother died, leaving him to be raised by his grandparents.
He was valedictorian at both his high school and UCLA.
He and Eleanor Roosevelt played a key role in the drafting and adoption of the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
A UN colleague said, 'He's usually the first into a dangerous situation and the last out.'
He was the first black person to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
He and his son were denied membership in the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens. When the story became news, the club apologized and offered to admit them. He refused on the grounds that the decision was not based on racial equality but was merely an exception due to his fame (1959).
He participated in the March on Washington (1963) and the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march (1965).

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 44]
• Chocolate Milk [Bi-racial - Black and White]
• Civil Rights Activists
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [A-C]
• I Attended Harvard
• I Attended John F. Kennedy's Funeral [November 25, 1963]
• I Attended London School of Economics
• I Attended Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Funeral [April 9, 1968]
• I Attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom [August 28, 1963]
• I Attended UCLA
• I Died in 1971 (Ranked: 67)
• I Earned a Doctorate
• I Have Diabetes
• I Named My Kid After Myself
• I Outlived My Child
• I Was Hot For My Student
• I'm Buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx
• Look at My Globe
• Newspaper Delivery Boys
• Nobel Peace Prize (Ranked: 1950)
• Profiles 33251-33500 (Ranked: 33391)
• Spingarn Medal Winners (Ranked: 1949)
• U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients
• Valedictorians

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 9 Votes: 88.89% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 23 Votes: 52.17% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 49 Votes: 51.02% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 28 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 66 Votes: 54.55% Annoying