Committee Assignments and Diplomatic Service
- President pro tempore of the Senate during the 80th Congress, 1947–1949
- Chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills, 1931–1933
- Chairman, Senate Republican Conference, 1945–1947
- Chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations, 1947–1949
- Delegate to the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco in 1945
- Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly at London and New York City in 1946
- United States adviser to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Council of Foreign Ministers at London, Paris, and New York City in 1946
- Delegate to the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Continental Peace and Security, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on August 15–September 2, 1947, which drafted the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (also known as the Rio Treaty)
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