William Edward Dodd

William E. Dodd (1869–1940) was an American historian and diplomat. Born in North Carolina and trained at Leipzig, he taught at Randolph-Macon College and then for many years at the University of Chicago, specializing in the history of the American South. His books include lives of Jefferson Davis and Woodrow Wilson, The Cotton Kingdom and Expansion and Conflict. In 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him ambassador to Germany, where he grew openly hostile to the Nazi regime before resigning in 1937.