Elihu Root State of Residency: New York Appointment: Jul 7, 1905 Entry on Duty: Jul 19, 1905 Termination of Appointment: Jan 27, 1909 Presidency: Roosevelt Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Dec 6, 1905.

As Secretary of State

• Created the American-Canadian International Joint Commission

• Negotiated arbitration treaties with twenty-four nations

Foreign Travels of Secretary of State Elihu Root

Foreign Relations of the United States:
1905, 1906 (vol. 1 & 2), 1907 (vol. 1 & 2), 1908, 1909

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Born: February 15, 1845
Died: February 7, 1937
Married: Clara Frances Wales
Education: Hamilton College: New York University Law School
Occupation: Lawyer

Government Positions

• United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York 1883-1885

• Delegate tot he State constitutional convention 1984

• Secretary of War in the Cabinets of Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt 1899-1904

• Member of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal in 1903

• Senator from New York 1909-1915

• Counsel for the United States in the North atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration in 1910

• Became a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in 1910

• President of the New York State constitutional convention of 1915

• Chief of a special mission to Russia in 1917

• President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1910-1925

• Member of the committee of jurists which planned the Permanent Court of International Justice in 1920

• Delegate to the Washington conference on Limitation of Armament 1921-1922

Notable Events