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When [[World War II]] threatened [[President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] turned over the war department to Stimson, realizing the need for a bipartisan [[military]] policy. (For Secretary of the [[Navy]] he chose Frank Knox, the 1936 GOP vice presidential candidate).  Stimson brought [[business]] leaders to [[Washington]]. As Secretary of War during [[World War II]] he took a hard line against [[Nazi]] and [[Japan]]ese aggression. During the war he was responsible for supplying soldiers and weapons to the [[Army]] and Air Force. He promoted the growth of military industries, and reorganize the War Department and expanded it to 12 million men and women. <ref>http://www.answers.com/topic/henry-l-stimson</ref>  More than anyone he controlled the atomic bomb project, including its high priority construction and the decision to use it against Japan to end the war without millions more American or Japanese deaths.

When [[World War II]] threatened [[President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] turned over the war department to Stimson, realizing the need for a bipartisan [[military]] policy. (For Secretary of the [[Navy]] he chose Frank Knox, the 1936 GOP vice presidential candidate).  Stimson brought [[business]] leaders to [[Washington]]. As Secretary of War during [[World War II]] he took a hard line against [[Nazi]] and [[Japan]]ese aggression. During the war he was responsible for supplying soldiers and weapons to the [[Army]] and Air Force. He promoted the growth of military industries, and reorganize the War Department and expanded it to 12 million men and women. <ref>http://www.answers.com/topic/henry-l-stimson</ref>  More than anyone he controlled the atomic bomb project, including its high priority construction and the decision to use it against Japan to end the war without millions more American or Japanese deaths.

Scion of a wealthy family from [[New York City]], Stimson was educated at Phillips Andover Academy, [[Yale College]], and  [[Harvard Law School]]. In 1892, he became a parter to a prestigious [[Wall Street]] [[law]] firm. And in 1906 President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] appointed him U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He unsuccessfully ran for [[Governor]] in 1910.  

Scion of a wealthy family from [[New York City]], Stimson was educated at Phillips Andover Academy, [[Yale]] [[College]], and  [[Harvard Law School]]. In 1892, he became a parter to a prestigious [[Wall Street]] [[law]] firm. And in 1906 President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] appointed him U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He unsuccessfully ran for [[Governor]] in 1910.  

Stimson's distinguished career began in the [[William Howard Taft]] administration when he was appointed Secretary of War in 1911 and helped modernize the army's structure on the eve of [[World War I]].  Stimson supported Taft in the 1912 GOP contest with Roosevelt. During the war e was a colonel on active service; he was thereafter always known as "Colonel Stimson".

Stimson's distinguished career began in the [[William Howard Taft]] administration when he was appointed Secretary of War in 1911 and helped modernize the army's structure on the eve of [[World War I]].  Stimson supported Taft in the 1912 GOP contest with Roosevelt. During the war e was a colonel on active service; he was thereafter always known as "Colonel Stimson".