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Elihu Root was the brilliant lawyer who became US Secretary of War and Secretary of State between 1901 and 1909. He subsequently became a Senator and the first president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Root was awarded the Peace Prize for having pursued the aim that conflicts between states must be resolved by arbitration ...
A United States senator from 1909 to 1915, Elihu Root took an active role in settling the North Atlantic fisheries dispute, in opposing a bill which would have exempted U.S. shipping from paying tolls to use the Panama Canal while levying charges against other nations’ shipping, and in pressing for international arbitration.
In addition to receiving the Nobel Prize, Root was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (from Belgium) and the Grand Commander of the Order of George I (from Greece).
Elihu Root (* 15. Februar 1845 in Clinton, New York; † 7. Februar 1937 in New York City) war ein US-amerikanischer Jurist und Politiker. 1912 erhielt er den Friedensnobelpreis für sein stetes Bemühen um Ausgleich der Interessen und die Formulierung von Schiedsverträgen in internationalen Konflikten.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1912 was awarded to Elihu Root "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"
From Secretary of War to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Elihu Root was the brilliant lawyer who became US Secretary of War and Secretary of State between 1901 and 1909. He subsequently became a Senator and the first president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Elihu Root was an American lawyer and statesman, winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1912. Root received his law degree from New York University in 1867 and became a leading corporation lawyer. As U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York (1883–85) he came into close contact with.
