ELIHU ROOT (1845-1937) US-amerikanischerJurist und Politiker. 1912 erhielt er den Friedensnobelpreis für sein stetes Bemühen um Ausgleich der Interessen und die Formulierung von Schiedsverträgen in internationalen Konflikten. / American lawyer, Republican politician, and statesman who served as the 41st United States Secretary of War under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt and the 38th United States Secretary of State, also under Roosevelt. In both positions as well as a long legal career, he pioneered the American practice of international law. Root is sometimes considered the prototype of the 20th-century political "wise man", advising presidents on a range of foreign and domestic issues. He also served as a United States Senator from New York and received the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize.
Brief (1 S. 4 to, gefaltet, mit geprägtem Kopf UNITED STATES SENATE) mit Ort, Datum, eigenhändiger Unterschrift in Tinte signiert Washington, May 7, 1912 - an CLEVELAND H. DODGE (Cleveland Hoadley Dodge, 1860-1926, American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was active in New York City politics and was president of Phelps Dodge mining and served as "adviser and financier" to Woodrow Wilson. He was known for his charity work in World War I.) in New York, über Mrs. Webb´s pension bill.
