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See also:ROOT, ELIHU (1845– ) , See also:American lawyer and See also:political See also:leader, was See also:born at See also:Clinton, New See also:York, on the 15th of See also:February 1845, the son of Oren Root (d. 1885), See also:professor of See also:mathematics at See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton See also:College from 1849-81. He graduated at Hamilton College in 1864, taught at the See also:Rome (N.Y.) See also:Academy in 1865, and graduated at the University See also:Law School, New York See also:City, in 1867. As a See also:corporation lawyer he soon attained high See also:rank and was counsel in many famous cases. Politically, he became identified with the reform See also:element of the Republican party. He was See also:United States See also:attorney for the See also:Southern See also:District of New York (1883-85), and a delegate to the See also:State Constitutional See also:Convention of 1894, acting as chairman of its judiciary See also:committee. From See also:August 1899 until February 1904 he was secretary of See also:war in the cabinets of Presidents See also:McKinley and See also:Roosevelt, and in this position reorganized the See also:army and created a See also:general See also:staff, and in general administered his See also:department with See also:great ability during a See also:period marked by the Boxer uprising in See also:China, whither troops were sent under General A. R. See also:Chaffee, the insurrection of the Filipinos, the withdrawal of the United States troops from See also:Cuba, and the See also:establishment of a See also:government for the Philippines under a Philippine See also:Commission, for which he See also:drew up the " instructions," in reality comprising a constitution, a judicial See also:code and a See also:system of See also:laws. In 1903 he was a member of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal. In See also:July 1905 he re-entered See also:President Roosevelt's See also:cabinet as secretary of state. In the summer of 1906, during a visit to the See also:Pan-American See also:Conference at Rio de Janeiro, he was elected its honorary president, and during a tour through the Latin-American republics, brought about a better understanding between the United States and these republics. In general he did much to further the cause of See also:international See also:peace, and he concluded See also:treaties of See also:arbitration with See also:Japan, Great See also:Britain, See also:France, See also:Italy, See also:Spain, See also:Portugal, See also:Austria-See also:Hungary, See also:Switzerland, See also:Norway, See also:Sweden, See also:Denmark, See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland and other countries. Upon his resignation from the cabinet he was elected, in See also:January 1909, as United States senator from New York. In 1910 he was See also:chief counsel for the United States before the See also:Hague tribunal for the arbitration of the See also:long-See also:standing dispute concerning See also:fisheries between his See also:country and Great Britain (see See also:NEWFOUNDLAND). He received the degree of LL.D. from
Hamilton, 1896; Yale, 1900; See also:Columbia, 1904; New York University, 1904; See also:Williams, 1905; See also:Princeton, 1906; University of Buenos Aires, 1906; University of See also:San Marcos, of See also:Lima, 1906; and Harvard, 1907.
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