As per our current Database, Townsend Hoopes has been died on Sep 20, 2004 (age 82).
When Townsend Hoopes die, Townsend Hoopes was 82 years old.
| Popular As | Townsend Hoopes |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Age | 82 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
| Born | April 28, 1922 (Duluth, MN) |
| Birthday | April 28 |
| Town/City | Duluth, MN |
| Nationality | MN |
Townsend Hoopes’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Townsend Hoopes was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.
An influential twentieth-century Historian, he wrote the first detailed account of President Lyndon Johnson's decision to de-escalate the Vietnam War. During the late 1960s, he served as Under Secretary of the Air Force.
He attended Yale University, where he was the captain of the football team. He went on to serve in the Marine Corps during World War II.
He is best known for his Bancroft Prize-winning historical book, The Devil and John Foster Dulles (1973).
He was born in Duluth, Minnesota, where his father worked as a Great Lakes steamship executive. His second marriage, to Ann Merrifield, lasted four decades and produced a daughter. Previously, he had been married to Marion Schmidt, with whom he had two sons.
A Common topic of Hoopes' writing was the foreign policy of President Dwight Eisenhower.
