Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1864, Oct. 17 | Born, Watertown, N.Y. |
| 1886 | Graduated, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. |
| 1889 | Admitted to New York bar |
| 1890 | Married Eleanor Foster |
| 1892-1893 | Associate counsel for United States on Bering Sea fur-seal arbitrations |
| 1896-1897 | Counsel, United States Bering Sea Claims Commission |
| 1903 | American counsel, Alaskan Boundary Tribunal |
| 1906 | Helped found American Society of International Law |
| 1907 | Associate editor, American Journal of International Law |
| 1909-1910 | American counsel, Hague Tribunal for arbitration of the North Atlantic Fisheries |
| 1912-1914 | Agent of American-British Claims Arbitration |
| 1914 | Appointed counselor for State Department |
| 1915-1920 | Secretary of state |
| 1917 | Lansing-Ishii Agreement |
| 1918-1919 | Member, American commission to negotiate peace at Paris, France |
| 1921 | Published The Big Four and Others of the Peace Conference. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company Published Notes on Sovereignty from the Standpoint of the State and the World. Washington, D.C.: The Endowment |
| 1920-1928 | Member, firm of Lansing and Woolsey |
| 1923 | Counsel for China Counsel for Persia |
| 1923-1925 | Counsel for Chile in Tacna-Arica Arbitration |
| 1928, Oct. 30 | Died, Washington, D.C. |