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Negotiate Peace, 1918-19

HOOVER, Herbert Clark,

Secretary of Commerce; Engineer; b. West Branch, Ia., Aug. 10,
1874; Educ. B.A. (in mining engring.), Leland Stanford, Jr., U.,
1895; (LL.D., Brown U., U. of Pa., Harvard, Princeton, Yale,
Oberlin, U. of Ala., Liege, Brussels; D.C.L., Oxford); Asst. Ark.
Geol. Survey, 1893, U. S. Geol. Survey, Sierra Nevada Mountains,
1895; in W. Australia as chief of mining staff of Bewick, Moreing &
Co. and mgr. Hannan's Brown Hill Mine, 1897; chief engr. Chinese
Imperial Bur. of Mines, 1899, doing extensive exploration in
interior of China. Took part in defense of Tientsin during Boxer
disturbances; Chmn. Am. Relief Com. London, 1914-15, Commn. for
Relief in Belgium, 1915-18; chmn. food com. Council of Nat.
Defense, Apr.-Aug. 1917; apptd. U. S. food administrator by
President Wilson, Aug. 10, 1917, resigned June, 1919. Secretary of
Commerce, 1921

LODGE, Henry Cabot,

Senator; b. Boston, May 12, 1850; Educ. A.B., Harvard, 1871, LL.B.,
1875, Ph.D. (history), 1876; (LL.D., Williams, 1893, Yale, 1902,
Clark U., 1902, Harvard, 1904, Amherst, 1912, also Union Col.,
Princeton U., and Dartmouth Coll., and Brown, 1918); Admitted to
bar, 1876; editor North American Review, 1873-6, International
Review, 1879-81; mem. Mass. Ho. of Rep., 1880, 81; mem. 50th to 53d
Congresses (1887-93), 6th Mass. Dist.; U. S. senator, since 1893;
mem. Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, 1903; mem. U. S. Immigration
Commn., 1907

BARUCH, Bernard Mannes,

Educ. A.B., Coll. City of New York, 1889; mem. of New York Stock
Exchange many yrs.; apptd., 1916, by Pres. Wilson, mem. Advisory
Commn. of Council Nat. Defense; was made chmn. Com. on Raw
Materials, Minerals and Metals, also commr. in charge of purchasing
for the War Industries Bd., and mem. commn. in charge of all
purchases for the Allies; apptd. chmn. War Industries Bd., Mar. 5,
1918; resigned Jan. 1, 1919; connected with Am. Commn. to Negotiate
Peace as member of the drafting com. of the Economic Sect.; mem.
Supreme Economic Council and chmn. of its raw materials div.; Am.
del. on economics and reparation clauses; economic adviser for the
Am. Peace Commn.; mem. President's Conf. for Capital and Labor,
Oct. 1919

ROOT, Elihu,

Ex-Secretary of State; senator; b. Clinton, N. Y., Feb. 15, 1845;
Educ. A.B., Hamilton Coll., 1864, A.M., 1867; taught at Rome Acad.,
1865; LL.B., New York U., 1867; (LL.D., Hamilton, 1894, Yale, 1900,
Columbia, 1904, New