American lawyer and politician, 38th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1937)

Elihu Root

Elihu Root was an 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.

Born

1845

February 15

Died

1937

Era

1840s

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1845 Born
1937 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

438 Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus.
590 Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
706 Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III publicly executed in the Hippodrome of Constantinople.
1002 At an assembly at Pavia of Lombard nobles, Arduin of Ivrea is restored to his domains and crowned King of Italy.

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The world in 1937

When Elihu departed

april 1 Aden becomes a British crown colony.
april 1 The Royal New Zealand Air Force is formed as an independent service.
april 12 Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
april 26 Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by the German Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on February 15

Galileo Galilei 1564–1642 Italian astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (died 1642) Art Spiegelman 1948– Swedish-American cartoonist and critic Birdman 1969– American rapper and producer Darrell Green 1960– American football player Ernest Shackleton 1874–1922 Anglo-Irish captain and explorer (died 1922) Miep Gies 1909–2010 Austrian-Dutch humanitarian, helped hide Anne Frank and her family (died 2010) Milo Đukanović 1962– Montenegrin politician, 29th Prime Minister of Montenegro Steven Michael Quezada 1963– American actor, comedian, and politician Totò 1898–1967 Italian comedian (born 1898)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1845

Friedrich Martens 1845–1909 Estonian-Russian historian, lawyer, and diplomat (died 1909) Gabriel Fauré 1845–1924 French pianist, composer, and educator (died 1924) Georg Cantor 1845–1918 German mathematician and philosopher (born 1845) Jakob Sverdrup 1845– Norwegian bishop and politician, Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs (died 1899)

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