BIOGRAPHY Elihu Root Secretary of State,  Term of Appointment: 07/19/1905 to 01/27/1909

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• Born in Clinton, New York on February 15, 1845;
• Graduated from Hamilton College in 1864 and from New York University Law School in 1867;
• Admitted to the bar in 1867 and practiced in New York City;
• Married Clara Frances Wales in 1878;
• Was United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1883-1885;
• Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention of 1894;
• Secretary of War in the Cabinets of Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, 1899-1904;
• Member of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal in 1903;
• Secretary of State in President Roosevelt's Cabinet from July 19, 1905, and served until January 27, 1909;
• As Secretary of State, created the American-Canadian International Joint Commission and negotiated arbitration treaties with 24 nations;
• U.S. Senator from New York from 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 the same year; was president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1910-1925;
• President of the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1915;
• Chief of a special mission to Russia in 1917;
• 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;
• Died in New York City on February 7, 1937.