41. Root, Elihu Quote - Men Do Not Fail; They Give Up Trying.... Famous quote by Root, Elihu Men do not fail; they give up trying. on Quotations Book http://www.quotationsbook.com/quote/13825/

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44. ROOT, Elihu [1845-1937] -- American Statesman Son of Oren and Nancy Whitney (Buttrick) Root, and brother of Oren Root. He attended the common schools; was graduated from Hamilton college in 1804; assisted his brother Oren http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dav4is/people/ROOT3.htm

Search billions of records on Ancestry.com Directory Help Search Indices: Home Pedigrees ODTs Sources ... Annex Gallery Misc document.getElementById('FLAG').src = '../COM/loading.gif'; THIS IS A FREE SITE http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/people/index.html My ROOT pages Pedigrees ODTs Sources Celebs Annex Gallery A B C D ... Z My Celebrity Relations ROOT, Elihu [1845-1937] American statesman Relationship to me: ROOT family ODT Contents: Bookmarks (off-site links) Associated Page services Son of Oren and Nancy Whitney (Buttrick) Root, and brother of Oren Root. He attended the common schools; was graduated from Hamilton college in 1804; assisted his brother Oren, who was principal of the academy at Rome, N.Y., in 1865; was graduated from the law department of the University of the City of New York in 1867; was admitted to the bar, and practised in New York city, first in partnership with John H. Strahan and later with Judge Willard Bartlett. He was married, Jan. 8, 1878, to Clara, daughter of Salem H. Wales of New York city. He was by appointment of President Arthur, U.S. attorney of the southern district of New York, 1883-85; was a member of the county committee; chairman of the Republican county committee, 1886-87, and delegate at large to the state constitutional convention of 1894, being chairman of its judiciary committee. He was employed as counsel for William M. Tweed on the exposure of the "Tweed ring" frauds; for Judge Hilton in the Stewart will cases, and for the Sugar trust and various political litigations. He was appointed

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46. Root, Elihu Root, Elihu (18451937) Elihu Root (February 15, 1845-February 7, 1937), who became one of the most brilliant administrators in American history, was born http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/R/Root/Root.htm

Root, Elihu Although he had participated in local Republican politics in New York, he was little known as a political figure when, in 1899, President McKinley invited him to become his secretary of war. Since the nation was just emerging from the Spanish-American War, it seemed an unlikely appointment. But President McKinley, with remarkable insight, said that he needed a lawyer in the post, not a military man, and Root accepted the call of what he called «the greatest of all our clients, the government of our country». He returned to his private legal practice in 1904, but in 1905 at President Theodore Roosevelt's A United States senator from 1909 to 1915, Elihu Root took an active role in settling the North Atlantic fisheries dispute, in opposing a bill which would have exempted U.S. shipping from paying tolls to use the Panama Canal while levying charges against other nations' shipping, and in pressing for international arbitration. In 1915 he declined candidacy for reelection to the Senate and even declined, at least publicly, nomination by the Republican Party for the presidency of the United States. Although seventy years of age, he continued to be active as an elder statesman. He opposed Woodrow Wilson's neutrality policy but supported him during the war; he accepted Wilson's appointment as ambassador extraordinary to head a special diplomatic mission to Russia in 1917; on the 1919 Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations he took a middle stance between Wilson on the one hand and the «irreconcilables» on the other; as a delegate to the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922, he took a leading role in drafting the Five-Power Treaty limiting naval armament.

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