As Senator, Pell chaired the Foreign Relations Committee. His overseas experiences started at a very early age, when he traveled abroad with both his father, Herbert, and his mother, the remarried Matilda Bigelow Koehler (Claiborne's parents divorced when he was eight years old). Here is Claiborne's passport, issued on April 9, 1927, just weeks after his parents divorced. Claiborne was eight.
Also here, a passport for his mother, issued in 1932, when she was 37. This is the first photo of Matilda I have found -- though I am certain to find others.
A significant part of the biography will be the relationship the young Claiborne had with his parents.
Images courtesy of Special Collections, University of Rhode Island Library.
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