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Elihu Root COMMITTEE O N THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Register of Papers I Processed: MA Date: 1/23/56 ELIHU ROOT (184.5 - 1937) The papers of Elihu Root, lawyer, author, Secretary of War, Secretary of State, U. S. Senator from Hew York, President Hague Tribunal, were given to the Library of Congress. Measure of Size: 305 boxes Approximate number of items: These papers concern events from the summer of 1899 forward. Mr. Root's office files from 1867 to 1915 are in the custody of the firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam and Roberts; those from 1915 to retirement are in the office of Mr. Root's law firm, now Dewey, aaliantine, Bushby, Palmer and Wood. The Library of Congress has a 10-page listing of materials in its possession which is not adequately revealing. Elihu Root II - 2 Biographical Note I84.5, Feb. 15 Born, Clinton, New York 136^ A.B., Hamilton College 1865 Taught at Rome Academy 1867 A.M., Hamilton College 1867 LL.B., New York University.j admitted to bar and in practice in New York 1378, Jan. 3 Married Clara Wales (3 children) 1833-8$ U. S. District Attorney, Southern District of N. Y. 1899-1904. Secretary of War in cabinet of President McKinley (Republican) 1905-09 Secretary of State in cabinet of Theodore Roosevelt 1907 Dodge lecturer, Yale I909-I5 19101910-25 U. S. Senator from New York Member, Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1912 Awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1913 1913 Stafford Little lecturer, Princeton President, Hague Tribunal of arbitration between Great Britain, France, Spain and Portugal, concerning church property 1917 Ambassador extraordinary to Russia during Revolution 1921 Commissioner plenipotentiary for U.S., International Conference on Limitation of Armament, Washington, D. C. 1924 Roosevelt medal for Administration of Public Office 1926 Woodrow Wilson Foundation medal and prize for championship of Court of International Justice ,->° Elihu Root il - 3 Biographical Note (continued,) 1929 Member, League of Nations committee of experts to revise World Court statute on basis of experience at Court meeting in Geneva 1937, Feb. 7 Died Author of: The Citizen1s Part in Government. 1907. Experiment in Government and the Essentials of the Constitution. 1913• Addresses on International Sub.jects. 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. Men and Politics. 1924.. See: Who Was Who in America, 1897-194-2, vol. I, Marquis ,?'
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