born Feb. 15, 1845, Clinton, N.Y., U.S.
died Feb. 7, 1937, New York, N.Y.
U.S. lawyer and diplomat.
He became a U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York in 1883. He served as secretary of war from 1899 to 1904. After the Spanish-American War , he set up a civil government in Puerto Rico and organized U.S. control of the Philippines. As secretary of state (1905–09) under Hague Conventions ). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1912. He served in the U.S. Senate from 1909 to 1915. A supporter of the League of Nations , he helped frame the statute that established the {{link=International Court of Justice">International Court of Justice .