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	Elihu Root - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elihu Root (February 15, 1845 – February 7, 1937) was an American lawyer and statesman, the son of Oren Root and Nancy Whitney Buttrick.
		Root was appointed United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York by President Chester A. Arthur.
		Root was concerned about the new territories acquired after the Spanish-American War and worked out the methods of how Cuba would be turned over to the Cubans, wrote the charter of government for the Philippines, and eliminated tariffs on goods imported to the United States from Puerto Rico.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elihu_Root (844 words)

	Root, Elihu. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As U.S. Secretary of War (1899–1904) under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, Root improved the efficiency of the War Dept., made drastic reforms in the organization of the army, introduced the principle of the general staff, and established the Army War College.
		Root became Secretary of State under Roosevelt in 1905, serving until 1909.
		Root received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1912 in recognition of his efforts toward international peace.
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	Encyclopedia: Elihu Root (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Root was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the year 1912, the prize having been reserved in that year.
		Root agreed to speak in Oslo on September 8, 1914, but was prevented from doing so by the outbreak of World War I. This text is taken from Elihu Root's Addresses on International Subjects, edited by Robert Bacon and James B. Scott (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1916), pp.
		Root for that occasion [acknowledging the prize in Oslo on September 8] is here printed exactly as it was prepared for delivery before the outbreak of the war, without the change of a word or syllable" (p.
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	Elihu Root
		Elihu Root was born in Clinton, New York and in 1864 graduated from Hamilton College, where his father was a professor of mathematics.
		Root also was the driving force behind the Platt Amendment and the Foraker Act, and served on the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal.
		Root was a delegate to the Washington Naval Conference in 1921-22.
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	Elihu Root - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		The introductory address by Royal Cortissoz deals mainly with Root's relations to the arts; that by Henry L. Stimson with an assessment of Root's career as secretary of war and secretary of state; that by Nicholas Murray Butler with the story of the 1916 Republican convention in Chicago.
		The papers of Elihu Root are held by the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Root, Elihu.
	nobelprize.org /peace/laureates/1912/root-bio.html (874 words)

	American President
		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.
		Involved in New York state's Republican politics, Root was appointed to head the War Department on August 1, 1899, which underwent considerable reform during his tenure.
		Root stayed active in foreign affairs, accepting President Wilson's appointment to head a diplomatic mission to Russia in 1917, representing America at the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922, and becoming the first president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/theodoreroosevelt/cabinet/secretarywar/ERoot/email.html (238 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Elihu Root and the Conservative Tradition, by Richard W. Leopold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		IN THE course of his long and busy career, Elihu Root was thrown by events into three crucial encounters that may be taken as symbolic of his place in history.
		...Root had little understanding of early 20thcentury American "progressivism," and none at all of the revolutionary forces that were tearing Russia apart and beginning to transform the face of the earth...
		...Root was already over fifty (he was born in 1845) when in 1899 President McKinley summoned him to Washington to become Secretary of War...
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		ELIHU ROOT PUTS DAMPER ON - HOPES I OF SUFFRAGETTESI enator-Elect Appears During Hearing in the Assembly Chamber at- Albany and Lets - It Be Known that He Is Un - alterably Opposed to-- Giving Ballot to Women.
		Elihu Root strolled casually into the Assembly Chamber at the Capitol during the hearing on the Suffrage question this afternoon.
		Root said: - ``I am opposed to granting suffrage to women ;beeaus~ I believe that it, would he a loss to women, to all women, and to every woman; and because I -believe it would be an injury to the state, and to every man and every woman in the state.
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	ELIHU ROOT - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 05/03/1917
		Root had served as Secretary of War under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (1899-1904) and as Roosevelt's Secretary of State (1905-1909) before becoming U.S. Senator from New York (1909-1915).
		While Root was Secretary of State, the Immigration Act of 1907 was signed by President Roosevelt.
		Through Root's work in the Senate, the problem seemed to have been solved, and, in 1912, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for settling the problem of Japanese immigration to California and organizing the Central American Peace Conference.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/3_2002/peacemakers/ELIHU_ROOT.htm (402 words)

	Elihu Root
		Root is thrown by an incident at Marion during the campaign.
		Root himself, who would have taken the place gladly as an opportunity for his extremely keen intelligence, but who did not seek it, thinks that the Senate, flushed with its recent victory over Mr.
		Root declined to make it, holding that plain morality and a greater respect for the obligations of a treaty than Bethman Hollweg expressed when he called them scraps of paper required this country to charge just the same tolls for American ships using the canal as for British ships or any other ships using it.
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	Elihu Root
		Root had dominated the Constitutional Convention, that the proposed constitution was Mr.
		Root's constitution, that was enough; the voters rejected it in the referendum.
		Root took a high moral stand on the treaty it was said among Republican Senators that he was thinking more of the transcontinental railroads which were fighting competition by water than he was of the sanctity of international engagements.
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	Encyclopedia article: Elihu Root (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Elihu Root (February 15, 1845–February 7, 1937) was an American (A native or inhabitant of the United States) lawyer and statesman.
		In that capacity, he helped created the Hague Academy of International Law (additional info and facts about Hague Academy of International Law) in the Netherlands (A constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1579; half the country lies below sea level).
		Elihu Root is the second cousin twice removed of Henry Luce (United States publisher of magazines (1898-1967)) through Elihu Root (1772-1843).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/el/elihu_root.htm (287 words)

	Elihu Root -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		Formulated by the secretary of war, Elihu Root, the amendment was presented to the Senate by Sen. Orville H. Platt of Connecticut.
		Carlisle Barracks, Pa.; established in Washington, D.C., by secretary of war Elihu Root in 1901; moved to present location in 1951; senior school in U.S. Army's educational system; attended primarily by colonels and lieutenant colonels in the army; founded to provide education in strategy, national security, war operations, and high command.
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	Root, Elihu
		With the Japanese ambassador to the United States, Takahira Kogoro, Root negotiated the Root-Takahira Agreement (1908), under whose terms Japan promised to respect the Open Door Policy in China.
		From 1909 to 1915, as a Republican senator from New York, Root sided with the William Howard Taft wing of the party.
		In his later years Root worked closely with Andrew Carnegie on programs for international peace and for the advancement of science.
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	Hamilton College - Emerson Gallery - Elihu Root, Jr. Class of 1903: Lawyer-Painter
		(Hamilton College Class of 1903) was a prominent lawyer in New York City, a son of a statesman (Secretary of State Elihu Root), father of an inventor and brother of an art collector, but he was also a recognized and accomplished painter.
		For 20 years, from 1947 until 1966, Root exhibited at The Century and from 1957 until 1962 participated in Century shows open only to professional artists by invitation.
		Root also had a one-person show at the The Century Association in January 1963.
	my.hamilton.edu /college/emerson_gallery/root.html (204 words)

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		Elihu Root was born in Clinton, NY in 1845.
		Root had little political experience when he was appointed Secretary of War by President McKinley.
		Root's determination to achieve international peace and promote international arbitration earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1912.
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	Custom written biography on Elihu Root \| Essays on Elihu Root
		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.
		Elihu attended Hamilton College during the Civil War, graduating as valedictorian in 1864.
		Considerable material on Root is contained in Julius W. Pratt, America's Colonial Experiment: How the United States Gained, Governed, and in Part Gave Away a Colonial Empire (1950), and in the biographies of Roosevelt, Taft, and other contemporaries.Leopold, Richard William, Elihu Root and the conservative tradition, Boston, Little, Brown 1954.
	www.swiftpapers.com /biographies/Elihu_Root-28793.html (347 words)

	PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Spring 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Root envisioned the college as "a post-graduate course" where the Army's best officers would "study and confer upon the great problems of national defense, of military science, and of responsible command." Root commented:
		It is not strange that on the shore of the beautiful Potomac, in a land devoted to peace, there should arise a structure devoted to increasing the efficiency of an army for wars.
		Root closed that day with the following words to the college's faculty and students, a charge aimed in a somewhat different direction, but advice which rings as true nearly a hundred years on:
	carlisle-www.army.mil /usawc/Parameters/01spring/a-root.htm (527 words)

	ROOT, ELIHU (1845– ) - Online Information article about ROOT, ELIHU (1845– ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf.
		Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat.
		February 1845, the son of Oren Root (d.
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	Elihu Root
		Root, who was awarded the prize in late 1912, never was able to deliver this address: the start of World War I intervened.
		The chief force which makes for peace and order in the community of individuals is not the police officer, with his club, but it is the praise and blame, the honor and shame, which follow observance or violation of the community's standards of right conduct.
		Possibly Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), brilliant English soldier, statesman, and poet; wrote Apologie for Poetrie; died from effect of a wound received at the battle of Zutphen.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /history/johnson/elihuroot.htm (4742 words)

	Elihu ROOT
		The Military and Colonial Policy of the United States: Addresses and Reports [by Elihu Root].
		“Elihu Root and the Advocacy of a League of Nations, 1914-1917.” Western Political Quarterly 19 (September 1966): 439-55.
		“Elihu Root, the Constitution, and the Election of 1912.” Ph.D. dissertation, Northern Illinois University, 1983.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/us/congress/root-elihu.html (196 words)

	Hamilton College - Campus Tour - Tour Pages
		Located behind the Elihu Root House, The Root Glen is a seven and one-half acre wooded garden and ravine located between Hamiltonâs north and south campuses and named for the family that originally founded the gardens in 1850.
		Visitors are invited to enjoy the quiet beauty of the Glen, to wander the mile of red shale paths, to catch a glimpse of some of the 75 species of birds that have been spotted there over the years, and to view the squirrels and chipmunks, and even an occasional deer.
		At one point, the glen was cared for by Elihu Root, an 1864 Hamilton graduate who served his country as Secretary of State and Secretary of War and was a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
	www.hamilton.edu /applications/campus_tour/frame.html?DEP=Social&ID=RTGLGARD (208 words)

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		He taught school for one year, was graduated from the Law School of HYPERLINK "http://www.nyu.edu/" \t "_blank" New York University in 1867, founded a law firm after one year of practice, and by the age of thirty had established himself as a prominent lawyer specializing in corporate affairs.
		But President McKinley, with remarkable insight, said that he needed a lawyer in the post, not a military man, and Root accepted the call of what he called «the greatest of all our clients, the government of our country» HYPERLINK "http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1912/" \l "not_1" 1.
		Root was the first president of the HYPERLINK "http://www.ceip.org" \t "_blank" Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and helped to found its European counterpart.
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	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Root
		Root, Emery B. — of Adrian, Lenawee County, Mich. Republican.
		Root, Glenn A. — of Beulah, Benzie County, Mich. Prohibition candidate for
		Root, John Frick (1918-1988) — also known as John F. Root — of Pennsylvania.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/root.html (900 words)

	Elihu Root
		Elihu ROOT - ROOT, Elihu (1845—1937) Senate Years of Service: 1909-1915 Party: Republican ROOT, Elihu, a...
		Cabinet Members Under T. Roosevelt - Secretary of State John Hay (Cont.) Elihu Root, 1905 Robert Bacon, 1909 Secretary of the Treasury...
		Elihu Root on the Army War College.(Brief Article) (Parameters)
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	Elihu Root: Biography of Elihu Root (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On August 1, 1899, he was appointed secretary of war by President McKinley, and on March 5, 1901, was reappointed.
		After the Spanish-American War, Secretary Root represented the United States government in all official communications with Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippine Islands.
		In August, 1903, he resigned the office of secretary of war, his resignation to take effect in January, 1904.
	www.sacklunch.net /biography/R/ElihuRoot.html (129 words)

	Root, Elihu on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Elihu Root on the Army War College.(Brief Article)
		Mayor Elihu Harris and Mayor-elect Jerry Brown Attend Civic Pride
		State laws and the independent judiciary: an analysis of the effects of the Seventeenth Amendment on the number of Supreme Court cases holding state laws unconstitutional.
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