Elihu Root Born: 15-Feb-1845 Birthplace: Clinton, NY Died: 7-Feb-1937 Location of death: New York City Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Government, Politician Party Affiliation: Republican Nationality: United States Executive summary: Senator, Secretary of War, State Theodore Roosevelt considered Root "the greatest man that has arisen on either side of the Atlantic in my lifetime, [...] the brutal friend to whom I pay the most attention." Father: Oren Root Mother: Nancy Whitney Buttrick Brother: Oren Root Wife: Clara Frances Wales (m. 8-Jan-1878) Daughter: Edith Root (b. circa 1879) Son: Elihu Root Son: Edward Wales Root
University: Hamilton College (1864) Law School: New York University (1867)
US Senator, New York (1909-15) US Secretary of State (19-Jul-1905 to 27-Jan-1909) US Secretary of War (1899-1903) American Law Institute Honorary President (1923-37) American Philosophical Society 1906 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace President (1910-25) Pilgrims Society Council on Foreign Relations Phi Beta Kappa Society Nobel Peace Prize 1912 Traveled to Bolshevik Russia 1917
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