Elihu Root

Elihu Root

“I know how young lawyers are apt to follow their seniors. ... [Elihu Root and Willard Bartlett] displayed great ability during the trial. I shall impose no penalty, except what they may find in these few words of advice: I ask you young gentlemen, to remember that good faith to a client never can justify or require bad faith to your own consciences, and that however good a thing it may be to be known as successful and great lawyers, it is even a better thing to be known as honest men.”

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Yahoo Finance: Root (ROOT) Stock Fair Value Falls After Analyst Target Cuts and Growth Reset

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forkast.news: AWS Strands Agents Tools Received Four CVEs in 23 Days — And They All Share the Same Root Cause

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CBS Sports: Picking a European soccer team: From Milan, to Real Madrid, to Premier League giants, who to root for and why

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Hortidaily: 30% more fruit and stronger root system with biological soil improver

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myMotherLode.com: England in charge against Pakistan as Root and Brook hit half-centuries in 366-8

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Cricinfo: Joe Root and Jordan Cox put on a century stand

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Frontiers: Dryland herbs coordinate leaf protection, absorptive root morphology and lateral-root proliferation along aridity gradients

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The Guardian: Root and Robinson evoke Headingley history to help England boss opening day | Taha Hashim

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The Guardian: Appointment of Root and Fleming has been a mess but they could be a good blend | Mark Ramprakash

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Died 1937-02-07.

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In New York City, with his family by his side

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“He got in the habit politicians have of sitting around and talking instead of working.”

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And helped create The Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands

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When Root was 77, President Warren G

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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1920).

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Over American membership in the League of Nations, Root supported Henry Cabot Lodge's proposal of membership with certain reservations that allowed the United States government to decide whether or not it would go to war

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Succeeding his mentor Joseph Hodges Choate

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In an unsuccessful effort to establish an alliance with the new revolutionary government that had replaced the Czar

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In support of a resolution to reduce the number of elective state officers and combine the 152 state departments into 17

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Root served as president of the State of New York Constitutional Convention

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Awarded Honorary doctor of Leiden University (1913).

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Career landmark: United States senator (1913–1915).

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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for bringing about better understanding between the countries of North and South America and initiating important arbitration agreements between the United States and other countries.

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Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1912).

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As a result of his work to bring nations together through arbitration and cooperation, Root received the Nobel Peace Prize

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Root was elected as an honorary member of the New York Society of the Cincinnati

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Career landmark: United States senator (1911–1913).

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Roosevelt had begun challenging the absolute authority of judicial review, arguing that the Supreme Court was using its power to strike down necessary reform legislation, as best represented in decisions like Lochner v

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Career landmark: United States senator (1909–1911).

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Root persuaded those governments to participate in the Hague Peace Conference

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Career landmark: United States Secretary of State (1905–1909).

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And returned to private practice as a lawyer

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The dispute was resolved by British jurist Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone in favor of the United States on every point of contention

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By December 1899, but McKinley had objected to losing his Secretary of War, and Root himself preferred to stay in the Cabinet

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Root guided the establishment of the Philippine commission, led by William Howard Taft, as a move toward autonomous civil government

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The exclusive franchise granted to The New York and Porto Rico Steamship Co

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Career landmark: United States Secretary of War (1899–1904).

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Root never again became partner in a firm

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Root was elected a member of the executive committee of the newly formed North American Trust Company

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Based on his descent from Lieutenant Elihu Root (1772–1843) who was an officer in the Continental Army from Massachusetts, and was the second cousin twice removed of the publisher Henry Luce

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Root spoke against women's right to vote, and he worked to ensure that the right was not included in the state constitution

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Became known as the Elihu Root House, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1972

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And had represented Standard Oil, the Tobacco Trust, and the Bank of North America

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Root advised Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Thomas Brackett Reed on his controversial efforts to revise the House rules

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When the Vice President was informed that President James A

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Root encountered another future President: Theodore Roosevelt, who was elected to the State Assembly from Root's district

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Arthur was elected Vice President of the United States with Root's support

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Was elected to the Club's executive committee

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Root married Clara Frances Wales, the daughter of prominent New York Republican Salem Howe Wales

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Root accompanied his brother Wally, with whom he had lived in his early days in New York, on a European voyage

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And several other young lawyers founded the firm of Strahan & Root with offices on Pine Street

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With a Bachelor of Laws and was admitted to the bar on June 18, 1867

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With his brother Wally and sought a career in the law

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In Clinton, Oneida County, New York, to Oren Root and Nancy Whitney Buttrick, both of English descent

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Born 1845-02-15.

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“[F]or a long time I used to think that anal sex was how lawyers were conceived.”

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