biography
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Shotwell, James Thomson
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| lived:
| (1874–1965)
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| biography:
| Historian and internationalist, born in Strathroy, Ontario, Canada. He went to the USA in 1898 and taught history at Columbia University (1905–42). He was an adviser to President Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference (1919), and continued to promote his vision of collective security, which led to the Kellogg–Briand Peace Pact (1928). He served as president of the League of Nations Associates (1935–9), was chairman of the consultants to the US delegation to the United Nations Conference (1945), and was president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1949–50). He served as editor of what became the 152-volume work, Economic and Social History of the World War. |
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