BARUCH, Bernard Mannes,

Educ. A.B., Coll. City of New York, 1889; mem. of New York Stock
Exchange many yrs.; apptd., 1916, by Pres. Wilson, mem. Advisory
Commn. of Council Nat. Defense; was made chmn. Com. on Raw
Materials, Minerals and Metals, also commr. in charge of purchasing
for the War Industries Bd., and mem. commn. in charge of all
purchases for the Allies; apptd. chmn. War Industries Bd., Mar. 5,
1918; resigned Jan. 1, 1919; connected with Am. Commn. to Negotiate
Peace as member of the drafting com. of the Economic Sect.; mem.
Supreme Economic Council and chmn. of its raw materials div.; Am.
del. on economics and reparation clauses; economic adviser for the
Am. Peace Commn.; mem. President's Conf. for Capital and Labor,
Oct. 1919

ROOT, Elihu,

Ex-Secretary of State; senator; b. Clinton, N. Y., Feb. 15, 1845;
Educ. A.B., Hamilton Coll., 1864, A.M., 1867; taught at Rome Acad.,
1865; LL.B., New York U., 1867; (LL.D., Hamilton, 1894, Yale, 1900,
Columbia, 1904, New York U., 1904, Williams, 1905, Princeton, 1906,
U. of Buenos Aires, 1906, Harvard, 1907, Wesleyan, 1909, McHill,
1913, Union U., 1914, U. of State of N. Y., 1915, U. of Toronto,
1918, and Colgate U., 1919; Dr. Polit. Science, U. of Leyden, 1913;
D.C.L., Oxford, 1913; mem. Faculty of Political and Administrative
Sciences, University of San Marcos, Lima, 1906); Admitted to bar,
1867; U. S. dist. atty. Southern Dist. of N. Y., 1883-5; Sec. of
War in cabinet of President McKinley, Aug. 1, 1899-Feb. 1, 1904;
Sec. of State in cabinet of President Roosevelt, July 1, 1905-Jan.
27, 1909; U. S. senator from N. Y., 1909-15; mem. Alaskan Boundary