Paul-Henri Spaak

(January 25, 1899, Schaarbeek, Belgium-July 31, 1972, Brussels, Belgium). President of the First Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1946. Attorney. Socialist. Member of Parliament of Belgium, 1932-1957, 1961-1966. Minister of Transport and Posts and Telegraphs, 1935. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium, 1936-1938, October, 1940-1945, 1961-1966. Prime Minister of Belgium, May 15, 1938-February 21, 1939, March 13-31, 1946, March 20, 1947-August 11, 1949. President of the First Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1946. Minister of State of Belgium, August 11, 1949. President, General Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community, 1952-1953. Signer of the Treaty creating the European Market, March 25, 1957. Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1957-March, 1961.

Herbert Vere Evatt

(April 30, 1894, Maitland, New South Wales, Australia-November 2, 1965, Canberra, Australia). President of the Third Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1948. Known as "Bert" or "Doc." Justice, High Court of Australia, 1930-1940. Australian Labor Party Member of Parliament, 1940-1960. Attorney General and Minister for External Affairs of Australia, 1941. Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party, 1946-1951; Leader, 1951-1960. Played a leading role in the creation of the United Nations. President of the Third General Assembly of the United Nations, 1948. Chief Justice, Supreme Court of New South Wales, 1960-1962. Retired after a nervous breakdown.

Carlos Pena Romulo

(January 14, 1899-December 15, 1985, Manila, Philippines). President of the Fourth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1949. Secretary of Information and Public Relations, Philippine War Cabinet in U.S., 1943-1944. Brigadier General, 1944. Acting Secretary of Public Instruction, 1944-1945. Ambassador of the Philippines to the United Nations, 1945-1955. President of the 4th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1949. Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs, 1950-1952, 1963-1964, 1968-1984. Ambassador of the Philippines to the United States, 1952-1953, 1955-1962. Philippine Minister to Cuba, 1959. President, University of the Philippines, 1962-1968. Secretary of Education, 1966-1968. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence, 1942.

Dr. Luis Padilla Nervo

(August 19, 1894, Zamora, Michoacan, Mexico-September 9, 1985, Mexico City, Mexico). President of the Sixth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1951. Mexican Ambassador to the United Nations, 1945-1952. President of the 6th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1951. Secretary of External Affairs of Mexico, 1952-1958. Judge, International Court of Justice, March, 1963-1972. Recipient of the Belisario Dominguez Medal, October 7, 1980.

Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson

(April 23, 1897, Newtonbrook, Ontario, Canada-December 27, 1972, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada). President of the Seventh Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1952. Professor, University of Toronto, 1926-1928. Canadian Ambassador to the United States, 1944-1946. Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, 1945. Canadian Secretary of External Affairs, September 10, 1948-June 21, 1957. Signer of the Peace Treaty with Japan, 1952. President of the 7th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1952. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1957. Leader of the Liberal Party, January 16, 1958-April 2, 1968. Prime Minister of Canada, April 22, 1963-April 20, 1968.

Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru Pandit

(1900, Allahabad, India-December 1, 1990, Dehra Dun, India). President of the Eighth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1953. Member of Lok Sabha, 14 years. Indian Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., 1947-1949. 2nd Indian Ambassador to the United States and Mexico, 1949-1952. President of the 8th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1953. Indian High Commissioner to Great Britain and Ambassador to Ireland, 1954-1961. Indian Ambassador to Spain, 1958-1961. Governor of Maharashtra, 1962-1964. Member of the Lok Sabha, 1964-1968. Sister of Jawaharlal Nehru. First woman to preside over the General Assembly of the United Nations. Married Ranjit Pandit. Critic of Indira Gandhi.

Jose Guillermo Maza Fernandez

(October 13, 1889, Los Angeles, Chile-May 6, 1964, Santiago, Chile). President of the Tenth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1955. Liberal Party Member, Chilean House of Representatives, 1920-1925. Liberal Party Member, Chilean Senate, 1925-1953 (President, 1936-1937). Liberal Party Prime Minister of Chile and Minister of the Interior, 1925. Author of the 1925 Constitution of Chile. Liberal Party Minister of Justice and Minister of Education of Chile, 1926. Chilean Ambassador to Uruguay, Brazil, Haiti, Panama, Dominican Republica and Peru. President of the Tenth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1955.

(1891, Bangkok, Thailand-1976). President of the Eleventh Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1956. Adviser to King Rama VI, 1922. Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, 1924. Thai Minister to Great Britain, Netherlands, and Belgium, 1926. Thai Delegate to the League of Nations, c. 1926-1930. Professor, Chulalongko, University, 1930. Thai Ambassador to the United States, 1947-1952. Concurrently Thai Ambassador to the United Nations, 1947-1952. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, 1952-1959. President of the 11th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1956. Considered one of the founding fathers of philology criticism in Thailand.

Sir Leslie Knox Munro

(February 26, 1901, Auckland, New Zealand-February 13, 1974, Hamilton, New Zealand). President of the Twelfth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations and the Third Emergency Special Session, 1957-1958. Attorney. National Party. Dean, Faculty of Law, Auckland University College on Jurisprudence, 1938. Associate Editor, New Zealand Herald, 1941, Editor, 1942. Ambassador of New Zealand to the United Nations, 1952-1958. Concurrently Ambassador of New Zealand to the United States, 1952-1958. Named Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, 1955. President of the 12th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1957, and of the 3rd Emergency Special Session, 1958. Member, New Zealand House of Commons, 1963-1969.