HARDING, Warren G.,
President of the United States; b. Corsica, Morrow Co., O., Nov. 2,
1865; Educ. student of Ohio Central Coll. (now defunct), Iberia,
1879-82; engaged in newspaper business at Marion, O., since 1884;
pres. Harding Pub. Co., pubs. Star (daily); mem. Ohio Senate,
1900-4; lt.-gov. of Ohio, 1904-6; Rep. nominee for gov. of Ohio, 1910
(defeated); mem. U. S. Senate, from Ohio, 1915-21; Baptist;
President of the United States, 1921
WILSON, Woodrow,
Twenty-eighth President of the United States; b. Staunton, Va.,
Dec. 28, 1856; Educ. Davidson Coll., N. C., 1874-5; A.B.,
Princeton, 1879, A.M., 1882; grad. in law, U. of Va., 1881;
post-grad, work at Johns Hopkins, 1883-5, Ph.D., 1886; (LL.D., Wake
Forest, 1887, Tulane, 1898, Johns Hopkins, 1902, Rutgers, 1902, U.
of Pa., 1903, Brown, 1903; Harvard, 1907, Williams, 1908,
Dartmouth, 1909; Litt. D., Yale, 1901); pres. Aug. 1, 1902--Oct.
20, 1910, Princeton U.; gov. of N. J., Jan. 17, 1911--Mar. 1, 1913
(resigned); nominated for President in Dem. Nat. Conv. Baltimore,
1912, and elected Nov. 4, 1912, for term, Mar. 4, 1913-Mar. 4,
1917; renominated for President in Dem. Nat. Conv., St. Louis,
1916, and reelected, Nov. 7, 1916; for term Mar. 4, 1917-Mar. 4,
1921; Left for France on the troopship "George Washington", Dec. 4,
1918, at the head of Am. Commn. to Negotiate Peace; returned to U.
S., arriving in Boston, Feb. 24,1919; left New York on 2d trip to
Europe, Mar. 5; arrived in Paris, Mar. 14; signed Peace Treaty,
June 28, 1919
HARVEY, George (Brinton McClellan),
Editor; b. Peacham, Vt., Feb. 16, 1864; Educ. Peacham Academy;
(LL.D., University of Nevada, University of Vermont, Middlebury
Coll. and Erskine Coll.). Consecutively reporter Springfield
Republican, Chicago News, and New York World, 1882-6; ins. commr.
of N. J., 1890-1; mng. editor New York World, 1891-93; constructor
and pres. various electric railroads, 1894-8; purchased, 1899, and
since editor North American Review, Pres. Harper & Bros., 1900-15;
North Am. Review Pub. Co., 1899-; editor and pub. Harvey's Weekly;
dir. Audit Co. of New York; Col. and a.-d.-c. on staffs of Govs.
Green and Abbett, of N. J., 1885-92; hon. col. and a.-d.-c. on
staffs of Govs. Heyward and Ansel, of S. C.; U. S. Ambassador to
Court of Saint James
HUGHES, Charles Evans,
Secretary of State; b. at Glens Falls, N. Y., Apr. 11, 1862; Educ.
Colgate U., 1876-8; A.B., Brown U., 1881, A.M., 1884; LL.B.,
Columbia, 1884; (LL.D., Brown, 1906, Columbia, Knox, and Lafayette,
1907, Union, Colgate, 1908, George Washington, 1909, Williams
College, Harvard, and Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1910, Yale Univ.,
1915); admitted to N. Y. bar, 1884; prize fellowship, Columbia Law
Sch., 1884-7; nominated for office of mayor of New York by Rep.
Conv., 1905, but declined; gov. of N. Y. 2 terms, Jan. 1, 1907-Dec.
31, 1908, Jan. 1, 1909-Dec. 31, 1910; resigned, Oct. 6, 1910;
apptd., May 2, 1910, and Oct. 10, 1910, became asso. justice
Supreme Court of U. S.; nominated for President of U. S. in Rep.
Nat. Conv., Chicago, June 10, 1916, and resigned from Supreme Court
same day; Secretary of State, 1921
HOUSE, Edward Mandell,
B. Houston, Tex., July 26, 1858; Educ. Hopkins Grammar Sch., New
Haven, Conn., 1877; Cornell U., 1881; active in Dem. councils,
state and national, but never a candidate for office. Personal
representative of President Wilson to the European governments in
1914, 1915, and 1916; apptd. by the President, Sept., 1917, to
gather and organize data necessary at the eventual peace
conference; commd. as the special rep. of Govt. of U. S. at the
Inter-Allied Conference of Premiers and Foreign Ministers, held in
Paris, Nov. 29, 1917, to effect a more complete coordination of the
activities of the Entente cobelligerents for the prosecution of the
war; designated by the President to represent the U. S. in the
Supreme War Council at Versailles, Dec. 1, 1917; Oct. 17, 1918;
designated by the President to act for the U. S. in the negotiation
of the Armistice with the Central Powers; mem. Am. Commn. to
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 York U., 1904, Williams, 1905, Princeton, 1906,
U. of Buenos Aires, 1906, Harvard, 1907, Wesleyan, 1909, McHill,
1913, Union U., 1914, U. of State of N. Y., 1915, U. of Toronto,
1918, and Colgate U., 1919; Dr. Polit. Science, U. of Leyden, 1913;
D.C.L., Oxford, 1913; mem. Faculty of Political and Administrative
Sciences, University of San Marcos, Lima, 1906); Admitted to bar,
1867; U. S. dist. atty. Southern Dist. of N. Y., 1883-5; Sec. of
War in cabinet of President McKinley, Aug. 1, 1899-Feb. 1, 1904;
Sec. of State in cabinet of President Roosevelt, July 1, 1905-Jan.
27, 1909; U. S. senator from N. Y., 1909-15; mem. Alaskan Boundary
Tribunal, 1903; counsel for U. S. in N. Atlantic Fisheries
Arbitration, 1910; mem. Permanent Court of Arbitration at The
Hague, 1910-; pres. Carnegie Endowment for Internat. Peace, 1910;
president Hague Tribunal of Arbitration between Great Britain,
France, Spain, and Portugal, concerning church property, 1913;
ambassador extraordinary at the head of special diplomatic mission
to Russia, during revolution, 1917. Awarded Nobel Peace Prize for
1912.
JOHNSON, Hiram Warren,
Senator; b. Sacramento, Cal., Sept. 2, 1866; Educ. U. of Cal.,
leaving in jr. yr.; began as short-hand reporter; studied law in
father's office; admitted to Cal. bar, 1888; mem. staff of pros.
attys. in boodling cases, involving leading city officials and
almost all pub. utility corpns. in San Francisco, 1906-7; was
selected to take the place of Francis J. Heney, after latter was
shot down in court while prosecuting Abe Ruef, for bribery, 1908,
and secured conviction of Ruef; gov. of Cal., 1911-15; reelected
for term, 1915-19 (resigned Mar. 15, 1917); a founder of
Progressive Party, 1912, and nominee for V.-P. of U.S. on Prog.
ticket same yr.; U. S. senator from Cal. for term 1917-23
KNOX, Philander Chase,
Ex-Secretary of State; b. Brownsville, Pa., May 6, 1853; Educ.
A.B., Mt. Union Coll., Ohio, 1872; read law in office of H. B.
Swope, Pittsburgh; (LL.D., U. of Pa., 1905, Yale, 1907, Villanova,
1909); Admitted to bar, 1875; asst. U. S. dist. atty., Western
Dist. of Pa., 1876-7; Atty.-Gen. in cabinets of Presidents McKinley
and Roosevelt, Apr. 9, 1901-June 30, 1904; apptd. U. S. senator by
Governor Pennypacker, June 10, 1904, for unexpired term of Matthew
Stanley Quay, deceased; elected U. S. senator, Jan., 1905, for
term, 1905-11; Sec. of State in cabinet of President Taft, Mar.,
1909-13; Reelected U. S. senator, for term 1917-23
LANSING, Robert,
Ex-Secretary of State; b. at Watertown, N. Y., Oct. 17, 1864; Educ.
A.B., Amherst, 1886; (LL.D., Amherst, 1915, Colgate, 1915,
Princeton, 1917, Columbia, 1918, Union, 1918, U. State of N. Y.,
1919); Admitted to bar, 1889; Asso. counsel for U. S. in Behring
Sea Arbitration, 1892-3: counsel for Behring Sea Claims Commn.,
1896-7; solicitor and counsel for the United States under the
Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, 1903; counsel, North Atlantic Coast
Fisheries Arbitration at The Hague, 1909-10; agent of United
States, Am. and British Claims Arbitration, 1912-14; counselor for
Dept. of State, Mar. 20, 1914-June 23, 1915; Secretary of State in
Cabinet of Pres. Wilson, June 23, 1915-Feb., 1920; mem. Am. Commn.
to Negotiate Peace, Paris, 1918-19
PENROSE, Boies,
Senator; b. Phila., Nov. 1, 1860; Educ. A.B., Harvard, 1881;
Admitted to the bar, 1883; mem. Pa. Ho. of Rep., 1884-6, Senate,
1887-97 (pres. pro tem., 1889,1891); U. S. senator, 4 terms,
1897-1921; Chmn. Rep. State Com., 1903-5; mem. Rep. Nat. Com. since 1904
BORAH, William Edgar,
Senator; b. at Fairfield, Ill., June 29, 1865; Educ. Southern Ill.
Acad., Enfield, and U. of Kan.; Admitted to bar, 1889; U. S.
senator from Idaho, Jan. 14,1903; elected U. S. senator for terms
1907-13, 1913-19, 1919-25