American Commission to Negotiate Peace
TheAmerican Commission to Negotiate Peace,successor toThe Inquiry,participated in thepeace negotiationsat theTreaty of Versaillesfrom January 18 to December 9, 1919.[1]Frank Lyon Polkheaded the commission in late 1919. The peace conference was superseded by theCouncil of Ambassadors(1920–1931), which was organized to deal with various political questions regarding the implementation of provisions of the Treaty, after the end ofWorld War I.[2]Members of the commission appointed byPresidentWoodrow Wilsonincluded:[3][4]
Commissioners Plenipotentiary[edit]
- Tasker H. Bliss
- Edward M. House,adiplomat,politicianandpresidentialforeign policy advisor to President Wilson.
- Robert Lansing
- Henry White
Staff Members[edit]
- Leonard Porter Ayres
- Bernard Baruch,chief of the Economic Section.
- George Louis Beer,colonial historian and chief of the Colonial Division.
- William S. Benson,chief of the Naval Section.
- Isaiah Bowman
- William C. Bullitt,chief of Current Intelligence Division.
- Robert Emmett Condon
- Norman H. Davis
- Clive Day,anAmericancollege professorand writer on economics history at theUniversity of California.
- Ellis Loring Dresel,chief of Current Diplomatic and Political Correspondence Division.
- Allen W. Dulles
- John F. Dulles
- Stanley Dunbar Embick
- Donald Paige Frary,anAmericancollege professorwithYale University,an expert on International Affairs, and author; served as a secretary toEdward M. House.
- Samuel Gompers,chief of the Labor Section.
- Ulysses S. Grant III
- Cary T. Grayson,aide to President Wilson.
- Joseph C. Grew,secretary general.
- Leland B. Harrison,diplomatic secretary.
- Charles Homer Haskins
- Amos Shartle Hershey
- Christian A. Herter,assistant to Ambassador White.
- Herbert Hoover,chief of the Food Section.
- Stanley K. Hornbeck
- Manley Ottmer Hudson
- Edward N. Hurley,chief of the Shipping Section.
- Mark Jefferson
- Douglas Wilson Johnson
- Francis Joseph Kernan,chief of the Military Section.
- Alexander Comstock Kirk,assistant to Secretary of State Lansing.
- Harry Shepard Knapp
- Thomas W. Lamont
- Alexander Legge
- Vance C. McCormick,anAmerican politicianand prominentbusinessmanfromHarrisburg, Pennsylvania.
- Luke McNamee
- Sidney Edward Mezes,anAmerican philosopherandcollege professor,former president of theCity College of New York.
- David Hunter Miller
- Fred K. Nielsen
- Frank Herman Schofield
- James Brown Scott
- Charles Seymour,anAmericancollege professoratYale University.
- James T. Shotwell
- Charles Pelot Summerall
- Leland L. Summers
- Frank W. Taussig
- Ralph H. Van Deman
- William Linn Westermann,then a professor at theUniversity of Wisconsin,who later taught atCornellandColumbiaand became president of theAmerican Historical Association.At the conference, Westermann advised on policy regarding the Near East.
- Allyn Abbott Young
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Langbart, David A. (2023)."We should have our own observers of information:' The American Commission to Negotiate Peace looks at Russia, 1919".Intelligence and National Security.38(5): 764–779.doi:10.1080/02684527.2023.2178748.ISSN0268-4527.S2CID257321687.
- ^United States National Archives (2006)."Records of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace".archives.gov/.Archivedfrom the original on 13 December 2006.Retrieved2007-01-04.
- ^"Descriptions of the Edward M. House Papers and Associated Collections in Manuscripts and Archives".Yale University Library. 2006. Archived fromthe originalon December 11, 2006.Retrieved2007-01-04.
- ^"Composition and Functions of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace, May 1, 1919".Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State.Retrieved2024-03-18.
External links[edit]
- Records of the American Commission to Negotiate Peacein the National Archives
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