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Elihu Root ( / ˈɛlɪhjuː ˈruːt /; February 15, 1845 – February 7, 1937) was an American lawyer, Republican politician, and statesman who served as the 41st United States Secretary of War under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt and the 38th United States Secretary of State under Roosevelt.
Elihu Root (February 15, 1845-February 7, 1937), who became one of the most brilliant administrators in American history, was born in Clinton, New York, son of a professor of mathematics at Hamilton College.
Elihu Root (born Feb. 15, 1845, Clinton, N.Y., U.S.—died Feb. 7, 1937, New York, N.Y.) was an American lawyer and statesman, winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1912. Root received his law degree from New York University in 1867 and became a leading corporation lawyer.
Elihu Root was the brilliant lawyer who became US Secretary of War and Secretary of State between 1901 and 1909. He subsequently became a Senator and the first president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.
Elihu Root was the brilliant lawyer who became US Secretary of War and Secretary of State between 1901 and 1909. He subsequently became a Senator and the first president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Elihu Root, 38th Secretary of State. Rise to Prominence. Root was born in Clinton, New York in 1845 to a mathematics professor at Hamilton College, where Root also studied. The future Secretary of State received a bachelor of law degree in 1867. Root was admitted to the New York bar that same year and promptly formed his own practice.
Elihu Root took charge of the nation's foreign affairs during his four and a half years as secretary of war under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt. Born on February 15, 1845, Root spent his youth in upstate New York.
As chairman of the Republican Party national convention in Chicago in 1912, it was Root who presided over the historic division of the party that year, which led to the formation of the Progressive Party.Root was noted for his brilliant analytical mind and a remarkable faculty for solving complicated problems of law, politics, and international ...
Jun 27, 2018 · Elihu Root (1845-1937), a U.S. secretary of war and secretary of state and a senator from New York, was the most constructive conservative of his times. Elihu Root was born at Clinton, N.Y., on Feb. 15, 1845. His father was a college professor of old New England stock.
