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ELIHU ROOT—

Ex-Secretary of State, Senator; born at Clinton, New York, February 15, 1845; son of Professor Oren and Nancy Whitney (Buttrick) Root; A. B., Hamilton College, 1864, A. M., 1867; taught at Rome Academy, 1865; LL. B., New York University, 1867; (LL. D., Hamilton, 1894; Yale, 1900; Columbia, 1904; New York University, 1904; Williams, 1905; Princeton, 1906; University of Buenos Aires, 1906; Harvard, 1907; Wesleyan, 1909; McGill, 1913; Union University, 1914; University of State of New York, 1915; University of Toronto, 1918; Colgate, 1919; University of California, 1923; Dr. Political Science, University Leyden, 1913; D. C. L., Oxford, 1913; member of the Faculty of Political and Administrative Sciences, University of San Marcos, Lima, 1906; Doctor "honoris causa," University of Paris, 1921); married Clara (died at Salem) H. Wales, of New York, January 8, 1878. Admitted to bar, in 1867, and engaged in practice in New York. United States District Attorney, Southern District of New York, 1883–85; delegate-at-large to New York Constitutional Convention, 1894 (chairman Judiciary Committee); Secretary of War in Cabinet of President McKinley, August 1, 1899–January 27, 1909, United States Senator from New York, 1919–15. Member of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, 1903; counsel for the United States in North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration, 1910; member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, 1910—; member of the Commission of International Jurists, which, on invitation of the Council of the League of Nations, reported plan of new Permanent Court of International Justice, established in 1921. President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1910—; president of The Hague Tribunal of Arbitration between Great Britain, France, Spain and Portugal, concerning church property, 1913; ambassador extraordinary at head of special diplomatic mission to Russia, during the Revolution, 1917; commissioner plenipotentiary for United States, International Conference on Limitation of Armament, which met at Washington, November 12, 1921. Awarded Nobel Peace Prize for 1912. Dodge lecturer, Yale, 1907; Stafford Little lecturer, Princeton, 1913. Temporary chairman of the Republican National Convention, 1904, and temporary and permanent chairman, 1912; chairman of the New York Republican State conventions, 1908–10–13–14–16–20–22; president of the New York Constitutional Convention, 1915. Chairman of the trustees of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1913—; Hamilton College, 1912—; trustee of the New York Public Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Federation of Arts. President of the New England Society in New York, 1893–95; Union League Club (New York), 1898–99, and 1915–16; Association Bar City of New York, 1904–05; American Society International Law, 1906—; New York State Bar Association, 1910; American Bar Association, 1915; member of the Mexican Academy of Legislation and Jurisprudence; honorary member of the Institute of Advocates of Brazil; honorary president of the Pan-American Conference, Rio de Janiero, 1906; American Institute of International Law, 1915—; National Security League, 1917—; president of the Century Club, New York, 1918—; correspondent fellow of the British Academy, 1916—; member of the Institute de Droit International; honorary member of the American Institute of Architects, New York Chamber of Commerce, Society of the Cincinnati; member of the American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Letters; correspondent fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; chairman of the Unites States Government War Savings Investment Society, since January, 1918; honorary president and member of the Council of the American Law Institute, Grand Cordon de l'ordre de la Couronne of Belgium, 1919; grand commander of the Royal Order of George the First (Greece), 1923. Author: "The Citizen's Part in Government," 1907; "Addresses on International Subjects," 1916; "Addresses on Government and Citizenship," 1916; "Military and Colonial Policy of the United States," 1916; "Latin America and the United States," 1917; "Russia and the United States," 1917; "Miscellaneous Addresses," 1917.